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Foram estudadas amostras de liqüido cefalorraqueano de 55 pacientes que apresentaram poliomielite anterior aguda. Os autores fizeram um estudo das alterações encontradas no primeiro exame do LCR, analisando particularizadamente os dados fornecidos pelos exames físico, citológico, químico e sorológico. Êsses elementos são discutidos em correlação com os encontrados na literatura. The study of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) abnormalities in 55 patients with acute anterior poliomyelitis is made. The lumbar puncture was performed in the preparalytic stage or, at least, in the first week after onset of paralysis. The findings were much alike that one of the literature, but the authors emphasize some peculiarities. All 55 samples of CSF showed some abnormalities, generally pleocitosis of lymphocytic type and moderately increased protein content. The fibrin clot was a very common finding (60%), and in many cases (22%) it appeared in absence of increased protein content. In a case the only abnormality was a delicate fibrin clot. In two cases the only abnormality found in CSF was: in one, neutrophil granulocyte and in the other, eosinophil granulocyte in spite of normal cell count.

This paper deals with two cases of patients suffering from cerebral cysticercosis, who were previously being treated as neuroluetic. The first case was of a patient aged 35 who suffered from epileptic seizures since the age of 12. Due to changes of the cerebrospinal fluid, he was submitted to an antiluetic treatment and also to malaria therapy. In spite of the antisyphilitic treatment the diseasse went slowly on, bearing a psychiatric and neurological syndrome of the frontal lobe and also [...]