Tongue myokymia presenting twelve years after radiation therapy

OBJECTIVE: This case is a patient with tongue myokymia following radiation therapy 12 years earlier, documented using video and EMG. CASE REPORT: A 68-year-old woman with a history of nasopharyngeal carcinoma presented with subacute onset of difficulty in speaking and involuntary movements of her to...

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Autores principales: Tiftikcioglu, Bedile Irem, Bulbul, Ismail, Ozcelik, Metin Murat, Piskin-Demir, Gonul, Zorlu, Yasar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2016
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Clinical and Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6123896/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30214958
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cnp.2016.05.002
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author Tiftikcioglu, Bedile Irem
Bulbul, Ismail
Ozcelik, Metin Murat
Piskin-Demir, Gonul
Zorlu, Yasar
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description OBJECTIVE: This case is a patient with tongue myokymia following radiation therapy 12 years earlier, documented using video and EMG. CASE REPORT: A 68-year-old woman with a history of nasopharyngeal carcinoma presented with subacute onset of difficulty in speaking and involuntary movements of her tongue approximately 12 years after radiation therapy to head and neck. Electromyography displayed myokymic discharges. There was no evidence of recurrent malignancy. SIGNIFICANCE: Delayed effects of radiation therapy might be seen decades later. Myokymic discharges may reveal radiation-induced neuropathy.
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spelling pubmed-61238962018-09-13 Tongue myokymia presenting twelve years after radiation therapy Tiftikcioglu, Bedile Irem Bulbul, Ismail Ozcelik, Metin Murat Piskin-Demir, Gonul Zorlu, Yasar Clin Neurophysiol Pract Clinical and Research Article OBJECTIVE: This case is a patient with tongue myokymia following radiation therapy 12 years earlier, documented using video and EMG. CASE REPORT: A 68-year-old woman with a history of nasopharyngeal carcinoma presented with subacute onset of difficulty in speaking and involuntary movements of her tongue approximately 12 years after radiation therapy to head and neck. Electromyography displayed myokymic discharges. There was no evidence of recurrent malignancy. SIGNIFICANCE: Delayed effects of radiation therapy might be seen decades later. Myokymic discharges may reveal radiation-induced neuropathy. Elsevier 2016-06-23 /pmc/articles/PMC6123896/ /pubmed/30214958 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cnp.2016.05.002 Text en © 2016 International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology. Published by Elsevier B.V. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Tongue myokymia presenting twelve years after radiation therapy
title Tongue myokymia presenting twelve years after radiation therapy
title_full Tongue myokymia presenting twelve years after radiation therapy
title_fullStr Tongue myokymia presenting twelve years after radiation therapy
title_full_unstemmed Tongue myokymia presenting twelve years after radiation therapy
title_short Tongue myokymia presenting twelve years after radiation therapy
title_sort tongue myokymia presenting twelve years after radiation therapy
topic Clinical and Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6123896/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30214958
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cnp.2016.05.002
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