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AN ANALYSIS OF THIRTY CASES

LEWIS GUNTHER, M.D.; WILLIAM J. KERR, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1929;43(2):212-248.

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Thirty-five years ago von Bechterew¹ wrote the first of a series of papers which described a syndrome consisting of stiff spine, nerve root pains, nerve root degeneration, alterations of sensation and muscle atrophies of a radicular distribution, which he ascribed to a pachymeningitis and compression of the nerve roots. Following the descriptions of Strümpell² and Marie,³ much discussion ensued on the classification of the various types of spondylitis, and with the exception of the work done in France and the reports by Camus,⁴ Leri,⁵ Sicard⁶ and Barré,₇ the neurologic side of the syndrome has received little attention.

In the English and American literature, references to the radicular syndrome have been few indeed, and under this title reference had not been made to spinal osteo-arthritis as the causative agent, until the appearance of Rosenheck's⁸ contribution in 1924, on radicular pain in spondylitis deformans. Well known textbooks⁹ and systems of medicine have . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
SAN FRANCISCO

From the Department of Medicine, University of California Medical School.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, July 27, 1928.

Read in abstract before the General Medical Section at the Fifty-Seventh Annual Session of the California Medical Association, April 30, 1928.

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