✦ LIBER ✦
Paroxysmal kinesigenic segmental myoclonus due to a spinal cord glioma
✍ Scribed by Manuel Marrufo; Jeffrey Politsky; Shyamal Mehta; John C. Morgan; Kapil D. Sethi
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 106 KB
- Volume
- 22
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-3185
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
We report an 18‐year‐old man with paroxysmal jerking movements of the left arm since age 7 years. These were invariably precipitated by startle or sudden movements. He was subsequently diagnosed with a cervical cord anaplastic astrocytoma on MRI. We could not identify previous reports of paroxysmal myoclonus secondary to a spinal cord neoplasm. We have coined the term Paroxysmal Kinesigenic Segmental Myoclonus to describe this entity. © 2007 Movement Disorder Society