It is clinically important, to distinguish between idiopathic Parkinson's disease (IPD) and multiple system atrophy (MSA) not only because of the implications for prognosis but also because urinary incontinence is often an early troublesome feature of MSA and by making the correct neurological diagn
The value of external anal sphincter electromyography for the diagnosis of multiple system atrophy
✍ Scribed by François Tison; Pierre Arne; Chrystophe Sourgen; Virginie Chrysostome; Farid Yeklef
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 181 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-3185
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The distinction of multiple system atrophy (MSA) from Parkinson's disease (PD) can be difficult, especially early in the disease. In MSA degeneration of sacral anterior horn cells (Onuf's nucleus) results in denervation-reinnervation of anal and urethral sphincter muscles, which can be recognized as
Electromyographic studies of the external anal sphincter muscle have received increasing attention in the differential diagnosis of patients with parkinsonism. Based on the fact that the external anal sphincter muscle is partly innervated by fibers that originate in Onuf's nucleus in the segments S2