Ankle clonus

Clonus is a series of involuntary, rhythmic, muscular contractions, and relaxations. It may be caused by interruption of the upper motor neuron fibers such as stroke, multiple sclerosis, or by metabolic alterations such as severe hepatic failure or serotonin syndrome. We present a video case of impr...

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Autores principales: Fareedy, Shoaib Bilal, Pathak, Ranjan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2015
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Clinical Video
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4498881/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26185667
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.251
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description Clonus is a series of involuntary, rhythmic, muscular contractions, and relaxations. It may be caused by interruption of the upper motor neuron fibers such as stroke, multiple sclerosis, or by metabolic alterations such as severe hepatic failure or serotonin syndrome. We present a video case of impressive left ankle clonus in a patient with old right middle cerebral artery stroke.
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spelling pubmed-44988812015-07-16 Ankle clonus Fareedy, Shoaib Bilal Pathak, Ranjan Clin Case Rep Clinical Video Clonus is a series of involuntary, rhythmic, muscular contractions, and relaxations. It may be caused by interruption of the upper motor neuron fibers such as stroke, multiple sclerosis, or by metabolic alterations such as severe hepatic failure or serotonin syndrome. We present a video case of impressive left ankle clonus in a patient with old right middle cerebral artery stroke. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2015-06 2015-04-09 /pmc/articles/PMC4498881/ /pubmed/26185667 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.251 Text en © 2015 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4498881/
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