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A Heterogeneous Degeneration Involving the Brain Stem, Basal Ganglia and Cerebellum With Vertical Gaze and Pseudobulbar Palsy, Nuchal Dystonia and Dementia

JOHN C. STEELE, MD; J. CLIFFORD RICHARDSON, MD; JERZY OLSZEWSKI, MD

Arch Neurol. 1964;10(4):333-359.

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Introduction

In this report we are describing a progressive brain disease featured by supranuclear ophthalmoplegia affecting chiefly vertical gaze, pseudobulbar palsy, dysarthria, dystonic rigidity of the neck and upper trunk, and other less constant cerebellar and pyramidal symptoms. Dementia has usually remained mild. This disease would appear to be predominantly a nerve cell degeneration centered chiefly in the brain stem.

The fully developed clinical picture presented by this disease seems to follow a fairly definitive pattern and does not conform to the classical system degenerations such as motor neurone disease, paralysis agitans, cerebellar degeneration, Creuzfeldt-Jakob disease, or the presenile dementias. Yet it would seem unlikely that the disease shown by our cases is a new one, and similar earlier cases may well have been accepted as arteriosclerotic parkinsonism when that diagnosis was used in a very broad sense such as in Critchley's monograph of 1929.¹ There are some resemblances to . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
TORONTO

From the Division of Neuropathology, Department of Pathology, University of Toronto, and from the neurological divisions of the Medical Services of the Toronto General Hospital and Sunnybrook Hospital, D.V.A.

Assistant Resident in Neuropathology (Dr. Steele); Associate Professor of Medicine (Dr. Richardson); Professor of Neuropathology (Dr. Olszewski).

Footnotes
Presented at the meeting of the American Neurological Association, Atlantic City, June, 1963 (clinical observations) and the meeting of the American Association of Neuropathologists, Atlantic City, June, 1963 (neuropathological findings).

Supported in part by a grant from the Canadian Medical Research Council to Dr. Olszewski.

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