Phenobarbital rheumatism in patients with brain tumor

✍ Scribed by Lynne P. Taylor; Dr. Jerome B. Posner

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 327 KB
• Volume: 25
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0364-5134
• DOI: 10.1002/ana.410250116

✦ Synopsis

mental disorders (91. These findings confirm the developmental nature of the disorder in this case.

Our case resembles those reported by Graff-Radford and associates (71 in its developmental nature, mild mental retardation, seizures, dysarthria with inability to protrude or wiggle the tongue, drooling, and symmetrically brisk reflexes without clonus or Babinski responses. However, our patient did not demonstrate delayed motor milestones, aphasia, facial weakness, absent gag reflex, increased jaw jerk, impairment of fine finger movements, spastic gait, or the Z-shaped thumbs described by Graff-Radford and colleagues. In