THE EXPERIMENTS to be reported here are part of a study of the effect of brain injury on
cerebral vasomotor tone and the contribution of alterations in cerebral vasomotor reactivity to …

The clinical and operative findings in 320 patients with prolapsed lumbar intervertebral discs
are described. The level of the lesion was correctly predicted on clinical grounds in 70 per …

A patient with acute necrotising encephalitis due to herpes simplex was treated with
intravenous idoxuridine and external decompression and recovered. Early diagnosis by a …

✓ A case of spontaneous extracranial metastases from a cerebral neuroblastoma in the
absence of prior surgery is reported. The tumor was discovered incidently through biopsy of an …

Recent studies [3, 5] have demonstrated that blunt, non-necrotizing injury to the exposed
brain followed by arterial hypertension caused acute brain swelling. It was postulated that …

In previous studies we found that gradual compression of the brain with an extracerebral
balloon, in monkeys, produced brain swelling and evidence of a gradual reduction in cerebral …

Calcium antagonists are being investigated for their role in preventing or ameliorating the
vasospasm associated with subarachnoid hemorrhage. We have done a phase I and phase II …

Bryce Taylor’s article in this issue (page 481) focuses attention on the use of information
from health care administrative databases for public audits or “scorecards” of the quality of …

[RPAP]: an integrated approach to education recruitment and retention”(CMAJ 1998; 158 [3]:
351-5), by Dr. Douglas R. Wilson and colleagues, was one-sided, lacked outcome …

As a modestly successful family physician who saves the government more money than it
can possibly know, I will be regarded askance if the mean length of stay for my patients is …