Aloysio de Castro, Brazilian clinician (Rio de Janeiro 14 June 1881 – Rio de Janeiro 07 October 1959) ACHIEVEMENTS First to use cinematography on lateral gait Used flank walk as a sign of ataxia Described the deviation of position of upper limbs during gait in athetosis First to use cinematography on runoff gait in beribéri Demonstrated that in some certain types of paralysia agitans there is a similarity with rhizomelic spondylosis (1911) independently from Tilne Pointed out the sign of the ocular sprocket in the side excursions of Parkinson’s syndrome Pointed out the diadochokinesia as a sign of Huntington chorea (1912) First to point out the importance of synkinesias in athetosis (1912) before Pierre Marie & Foix Described the triangle deviation of the mouth in facial paralysis Reported the third case of Recklinghausen syndrome with acromegaly but the first case of this association with pathogenic relations (1911) Described Tapia pseudo-syndrome Reported Babinski sign in common anemias (1926) and benign jaundice Reported the Brudzinski centro-lateral reflex in adult meningitis Described local skin reflex of mentum (1926) Described a new kind of reflex of automatism in hemiplegia Described a type of extension of the large toe in hemiplegia simultaneously with the associated bending motion antagonist to Cacciapuoti paretic thigh With Oscar de Souza proposed the term genito-glandular dystrophy (1917) Described the first case of dextrocardia, transposition of stomach, liver and spleen without gastric inversion With Baptista & Schilde concluded the constancy of pituitary duct in Felidae Named oxycephalus-syndactyly Described 2 new hypermetric tests being one of them the handshake sign Described the phenomenon of bilateral forced flexion in hemiplegic coma Developed a special test for studying the asynergy in the walk Reported the phenomenon of fingers dance in spasmodic hemiplegia Verified the constancy of muscle hypotonia in diabetes EPONYMY
Aloysio de Castro manoeuvre Sobre a interpretação do sinal de Babinski. Brasil Médico, 1927.
Aloysio de Castro sign Sinal de Brudzinski na meningite dos adultos. Brasil Médico, 1912.
Aloysio de Castro sign or statue face in periferic facial diplegia BIBLIOGRAPHY Brasil Medico XLVIII (44):920-4, 1934
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