[Central nystagmus writing during the pendular test. Findings on post-punctural symptoms after lumbar puncture...

The central nystagmus writing (ecriture centrale) during the pendular test is characteristically found in cerebral organic or functional lesions. Thirty patients with symptoms following lumbar puncture (L.P.) were investigated with the pendular test. In 46.6% central nystagmus writing was found 3 days after L.P. After subsiding of post L.P. troubles all the nystagmograms became normal. A control group of 30 patients without symptoms after L.P. did not show patholgic variations in the nystagmus writing during the pendular test.