Síndrome painful legs and moving toes
✍ Scribed by Bermejo, P.E.; Cruz, A.
- Book ID
- 123350802
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- Spanish
- Weight
- 61 KB
- Volume
- 207
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0014-2565
- DOI
- 10.1157/13102318
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## Abstract The syndrome of painful legs and moving toes consists of continuous or semicontinuous involuntary writhing movements of the toes associated with pain in the affected extremity. We report a 57‐year‐old man with a 33‐year history of painless and semicontinuous involuntary movements of the
## Abstract The clinical presentation, symptoms, and signs in 20 new patients with the painful legs and moving toes syndrome are presented. Painful legs and moving toes may develop in the setting of spinal cord and cauda equina trauma, lumbar root lesions, injuries to bony or soft tissues of the fe
I read with great interest the article by Alvarez et al. 1 In their review, they confirmed that Painful Legs and Moving Toes (PLMT's) etiology is diverse although the majority of patients had evidence of peripheral nerve involvement or radiculopathy. However, in some patients, namely in patients wit