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