Full recovery of adult onset opsoclonus myoclonus syndrome after early immunotherapy: A case report
✍ Scribed by Stefan J. Groiss; Mario Siebler; Alfons Schnitzler
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 70 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-3185
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✦ Synopsis
Opsoclonus myoclonus syndrome (OMS) is a rare disease characterized by opsoclonus, an eye movement disorder causing involuntary, chaotic saccades in all directions, and arrhythmic action myoclonus often involving the trunk, limbs, and head. 1 Cerebellar dysfunction with dysarthria and ataxia as well as encephalopathy and behavioral disturbances are also frequently found. OMS typically occurs along with infections or paraneoplastic mechanisms and is less frequently seen with other conditions, such as toxic, metabolic, or vascular disorders, among others. [1][2][3] Tumors most commonly underlying paraneoplastic OMS are lung cancer or gynecologic malignancies, especially breast and ovarian cancers. Although para-With this issue of Movement Disorders, we inaugurate a new section for the journal: Clinical Vignettes. Every month, we will feature a patient vignette that illustrates an important or novel teaching point. Cases will be selected from those submitted to the journal for publication by the senior editor and associate editor, so they should be novel enough to warrant publication in the journal, but also interesting-the kind of patient that one would be likely to discuss with colleagues and remember for a long time.
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