Familial centronuclear myopathy

The clinical and histological features of two Negro brothers with a centronuclear myopathy are described. They bring to 19 the number of cases now reported with this constellation of physical signs and pathological changes in the muscles. A review of these patients suggests the existence of several different diseases causing this picture, though presumably the underlying biochemical defects are closely related. It is concluded that these myopathies are degenerative rather than due to arrest of foetal muscle maturation.

The nature of the electrophysiological disorder in adynamia episodica

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Double-blind controlled trial of a micronized preparation of flumedroxone (Demigran) in prophylaxis of migraine

A double-blind cross-over trial of a micronized preparation of flumedroxone, an oral progestogen derivative, and a placebo was undertaken to determine whether this drug had prophylactic value in migraine. No benefit was found in males, or in females with no history of menstrual exacerbation of migraine. In women whose migraine was worse around the time of menstruation flumedroxone resulted in statistically fewer headaches of less severity.With the dose used in this trial (micronized flumedroxone 10 mg. t.d.s.) side-effects were frequent, the commonest being polymenorrhagia, which occurred in half the women of reproductive age.

Synkinetic movements of the eyelid: a case with some unusual mechanisms of paradoxical lid retraction

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Congenital aortic arch abnormalities with the "subclavian-steal" pattern of blood flow

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