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Deborah T. Blumenthal, MD; Jack E. Riggs, MD
Department of Neurology West Virginia University Health Sciences Center Morgantown, WV 26506-9180

Arch Neurol. 1997;54(1):16.

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Do you cringe when someone describes a positive or negative Babinski? If so, you may be a neurologist. Neurologists take their nomenclature seriously. For nomenclature aficionados, use of the eponym Arnold-Chiari should be reserved for Chiari type II malformations.¹ Thus, Ireland et al² struck a raw nerve with their use of Arnold-Chiari to describe multiple types of Chiari malformations. (Please forgive this expression of our neurological obsessive-compulsive personalities.) . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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