rare, late complication in a hemispherectomised patient: a brucella abscess in the contralateral hemicranium

Pathology in the contralateral hemicranium following hemispherectomy has been reported only once; a meningioma was found at autopsy, compressing the remaining hemisphere of a patient who had been submitted to a hemispherectomy for a malignant glioma [14] Intracranial brucella abscess have been reported only 10 times in the literature. We are reporting a case of cerebral brucella abscess in the remaining hemisphere following a hemispherectomy for infantile uncontrollable seizures and behaviour problems. The literature is reviewed and a new approach to the medial aspect of the remaining hemisphere is described

Death under anesthesia in the Middle East

An account of the first reported death under chloroform of an 18 years old man, in 1899 at a hospital in Beirut. The local government showed concern and investigated the cause of death. The auther called for awareness of the lethal dangers of chloroform, advised the use of ether and local analgesies

Intracerebral IgG synthesis in subacute sclerosing panencephalitis as evaluated from CSF analysis

Intracerebral IgG synthesis was calculated by the Tourtellotte formula in 23 patients suffering from subacute sclerosing panencephalitis [SSPE] and in 7 non-SSPE paticnis. Its; synthesis increased progressively and significantly with the clinical stage of SSPE suggesting that: increasing activity of the immune system may be a contributory factor to the progressive damage in the CNS. Results suggest that quantitation of intracerebral IgG synthesis has no diagnostic advantage over CSF IgG level or the ratio of IgG to total protein; however, it is a, more specific reflection of the amount of IgG synthesized locally in the CNS which may be of help in evaluating the results of therapy