When the aneurysm presses on the vertebræ and erodes them, the symptoms simulate those of spinal caries, particularly if, as sometimes happens, symptoms of compression paraplegia ensue.
Affections of the Spinal Cord are extremely rare, but paraplegia from myelitis has been observed.
Paraplegia and general paralysis have their more extended (bilateral) indications in like manner.
Physostigma: in a few cases of progressive paralysis of the insane, in old-standing hemiplegia, in paraplegiadue to myelitis, and in progressive muscular atrophy it has done good service.
Paraplegia and contraction of the muscles of the extremities are referred by some observers to gastro-intestinal inflammation.
Seeley of Ovid, New York, related to Morton a case of paraplegia with rectal paresis and dysenteric symptoms from malarial poisoning in a married lady aged thirty years.
This paraplegiahad begun spontaneously after cold and an attack of diarrhoea followed by constipation.
A soldier was evacuated to the 6th Army neurological center for paraplegia with tremor.
There was a total paraplegia inferior, with anesthesia for all sensation from the knees downward.
At any rate, a presumably organic paraplegia had recovered in two months and a half.
In fact, Mendelssohn found a complete flaccid paraplegia with urinary retention, without fever or pain.
Evidences of paralysis or paraplegia develop, retention or incontinence of urine, and oftentimes sexual excitement is present.
Paralysis of the posterior half of the body is known as paraplegia and results from derangement of the spinal cord.
When paraplegia is complete, large and ill-conditioned sores soon form on the hips and thighs from chafing and bruising, which have a tendency quickly to weaken the animal and necessitate his destruction.
When the congestion is sufficient to produce compression of the cord, paraplegia may be complete.
Paraplegia is not difficult to recognize, for it is characterized by a weakness and imperfect control of the hind legs and powerless tail.
Lignières has found in hemoglobinuria a streptococcus which produced nephritis, bloody urine, and paraplegia in experimental animals, including horses.
In intra-medullary tumours the paraplegia is usually less complete than in those that are extra-medullary.
Some authors are lukewarm in their advocacy of this operation, but we can cite a number of cases in which, after laminectomy, an apparently hopeless paraplegia has been entirely got rid of.
If paralysis occurs from the cancerous bodies pressing upon the cord (paraplegia dolorosa), it is of rapid development, often becoming complete in a few hours.
On the other hand, Remak said that myelitis, with neuritis, might be the origin ofparaplegia and simultaneous palsy of bladder and rectum.
Without multiplying case histories, it may be said that ataxic paraplegia (a combination of lateral and posterior sclerosis) may be treated in much the same manner.
A remark has been made as to the occurrence of functional paraplegia on p.
It was complicated by a wound of the spleen and an injury to the spinal cord producing incomplete paraplegia accompanied by retention of urine.
Immediate paraplegia resulted, both sensation and motor power were completely abolished, but there was no trouble either with the bladder or rectum.
Abscess of the lung I only saw once, and that in a case in which the injury to the chest was complicated by paraplegia from spinal injury and septicæmia, and it was possibly pyæmic.
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