The Diagnostic Procedure of Encephalography, With Special Reference to Traumatic Focal Lesions of the Brain.

Money, R. A.; Susman, Eric

doi:10.1111/j.1445-2197.1932.tb02532.x

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“…Swift (1931), Hauptmann (1932), Friedman (1932) and others have regarded encephalography as a means of differentiating between cases with genuine disabilities and cases with functional disturbances, implying that those cases which have normal encephalographic appearances usually belong to the latter group. Several others (Flugel 1932, Bennett and Hunt 1933, Lippens and Desjardin 1934, Travers 1937, Money and Susman 1932, have reported on the encephalographic changes following head injury without offering much comment on their vetiological and clinical significance.…”

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Ventricular Changes After Closed Head Injury

Davies

Falconer²

1943

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry

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IntroductionALTHOUGH the majority of patients who sustain a closed head injury appear to make a complete and satisfactory recovery, some are left with residual disabilities, which interfere with their well-being and their adjustment to society. It is known that in such cases permanent structural changes often occur in the brain, but clinically it is difficult to ascertain their severity and extent. There is no single method of investigation which affords this information. Such methods as neurological examination, radiological investigation of the skull, psychological tests, and electro-encephalography, each contribute something to the analysis, but each has its limitations. The following study was undertaken in order to evaluate air encephalography, not so much as a method of demonstrating the presence of posttraumatic space-occupying lesions, but of assessing the degree of damage which has occurred in the brain.That changes in the outline of the ventricles often follow closed head injury was clearly established in papers from Foerster's clinic at Breslau by Schwab (1926a and b) and by Bielschowsky (1928). Both authors employed encephalography with air introduced by the lumbar route and both described three groups of cases with abnormal encephalographic findings, viz. (a) cases in which the ventricles did not fill; (b) cases with enlargement and deformity

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