Presentation
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Lhermitte and McAlpine3 reviewed these cases and the syndrome of Lhermitte, Cornil and Quesnel and presented a somewhat similar case of what they termed a new syndrome that differed from the foregoing in several apparently essential features, notably [jamanetwork.com]
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Phénomènes d’allucinose chez une malade presentant une torsion et une contracture athetoides intentionnelles du bras. Revue neurologique, 1931; I: 609-610 [Lhermitte-Lévy syndrome] Lhermitte JJ, Lévy G. L’hallucinose pedonculaire. [litfl.com]
Entire Body System
- Crying
A dictionary of medical eponyms Related people Jacques Jean Lhermitte Lucien Cornil A slowly progressive pyramidopallidal degeneration marked by involuntary crying and laughing; hypertonus and rigidity of the locomotor, cervical and facial muscles, [whonamedit.com]
[…] both superior and inferior cerebellar peduncles Lhermitte-Cornil-Quesnel syndrome (1920): [aka progressive pyramidopallidal degeneration] syndrome of slowly progressive pyramidopallidal degeneration, manifest as pathological emotionality (involuntary crying [litfl.com]
- Painter
He was born in Mont-Saint-Père, Aisne, son of Léon Augustin Lhermitte, a French realist painter. Following his early education at Saint-Etienne, he studied in Paris and graduated in medicine in 1907. [wikidoc.org]
He came from a family of artists, in particular his father Léon was a renowned painter and friend of such artists as Rodin and Van Gogh. Léon Lhermitte's work can be seen in Chateau Thierry and at the Orsay Museum in Paris. [allaboutheaven.org]
- Pain
Phantom limbs – Lhermitte’s interest was particularly in the painful manifestations of the condition, which he called algo-hallucinoses (Lhermitte, 1954). [allaboutheaven.org]
Lhermitte 1924 When I bent my head, I felt a violent shock in the neck and a pain like an electric current running through the whole body, from the neck down the vertebral column into the feet Lhermitte 1924 Lhermitte-McAlpine syndrome (1926): combined [litfl.com]
- Epilepsy
The Self – 05 The Double in literature Lhermitte, Professor Jean - Visual Hallucination of The Self – 06 Very often her body halved itself Lhermitte, Professor Jean - Visual Hallucination of The Self – 07 1 Diseases which Can Produce the Phenomenon; Epilepsy [allaboutheaven.org]
Gastrointestinal
- Muscle Rigidity
rigidity, pseudobulbar palsy, and chorea. [litfl.com]
Psychiatrical
- Auditory Hallucination
Lhermitte-Lévy syndrome (1931): slowly progressing paralysis following a stroke, with incessant choreiform movements of arms and legs (rhythmic trembling), and visual and auditory hallucinations. [litfl.com]
- Suggestibility
Lhermitte syndrome (1922): [aka peduncular hallucinosis, red nucleus hallucinatory syndrome] Lhermitte described a 72 year-old female who experienced bizarre visual hallucinations associated with clinical signs suggesting focal midbrain and pontine involvement [litfl.com]
Neurologic
- Lhermitte Sign
Lhermitte sign (1924, 1927): [aka barber’s chair sign] symptom, comprising the sensation of an electric shock or paraesthesia that shoots down the neck and/or into the limbs when the neck is flexed or on coughing. [litfl.com]
His Eponyms… Lhermitte’s sign – Flexion of the neck in patients with multiple sclerosis produces electric shock-like sensations that extend down the spine and may shoot into the limbs. [cmeindia.in]
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Lhermitte was a noted clinical neurologist, and a number of medically relevant eponyms bear his name: Lhermitte's sign: Flexion of the neck in patients with multiple sclerosis produces electric shock-like sensations that extend down the spine and may [wikidoc.org]
He is best known for the sign that bears his name: the sign of Jean Lhermitte. [allaboutheaven.org]
- Chorea
[…] syndrome (1920): [aka progressive pyramidopallidal degeneration] syndrome of slowly progressive pyramidopallidal degeneration, manifest as pathological emotionality (involuntary crying and laughing), generalized muscle rigidity, pseudobulbar palsy, and chorea [litfl.com]
Workup
Other Pathologies
- Gliosis
[…] red nucleus hallucinatory syndrome] in 1922 Biography Born 20 January 1877 in Mont Saint-Père, France Died 24 January 1959 Medical Eponyms Lejonne-Lhermitte disease (1909): [aka olivo-rubro-cerebellar atrophy] adult onset, characterized by atrophy and gliosis [litfl.com]
Treatment
Jean Lhermitte Directions to Hospitals Treating Jean Lhermitte Risk calculators and risk factors for Jean Lhermitte Healthcare Provider Resources Symptoms of Jean Lhermitte Causes & Risk Factors for Jean Lhermitte Diagnostic studies for Jean Lhermitte Treatment [wikidoc.org]