Cerebellar pathology and micturitional disorders: anatomotopographic and functional correlations.

Cerebellar diseases represent about 2-3% of neurologic pathologies; they usually are classified as:--heredodegeneratives--pure cerebellar syndromes. Such diseases--aside from their aetiology--lead, through several evolutive stages, to different micturitional disorders, in most cases represented by hyperreflexic non dyssynergic bladder and urinary incontinence. On the basis of anatomopathological studies, also considering our 16 years long personal series (1992-2008), we were able to establish a relationship between such disorders and specific cerebellum anomalies, mostly of Purkinje network.