J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.. 53(3): 175-182, 1952

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Original article

AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON THE ALLERGIC ETIOLOGY OF ARACHNOIDEAL ADHESION (Part I)

The cause of arachnitis adhesiva circumscripta (cystica) has not been ascertained although it was depicted of by Drs. Oppenheim and Krause for the first time. In these days, however, the theory of allergy began to be advocated by Dr. Maekawa, Dr. Imachi, Dr. Akamatsu, Dr. Kai, Dr. Maeda, etc.
The experimental study on the allergic change of arachnoid has not still been disclosed except by Dr. Akamatsu's report, in which he depicted that an allergic change was observed at an arachnoid of a neighboring area of chiasma fasciculorum opticus resulting from tuberculin injection into a cisterna cerebellomedullaris of a rabbit. In an assumption that arachnoideal adhesion may also be resulted from a simpler form like an antigen-antibody reaction other than tuberculin injection, the author made an experimental study by means of an ordinary type of foreign-serum so as to examine if any adhesion arising from allergic change can be seen on an arachnoid. (author's abstract)

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