Can compressive thoracic cord lesions cause a pure lower motor neurone syndrome?

Compressive lesions of the spinal cord usually cause a syndrome of upper motor neurone weakness, spasticity and sensory loss below the level of the lesion. It has long been recognised that compressive cervical cord lesions may present as isolated lower motor neurone weakness of the upper limbs, a sy...

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Autores principales: Kok, Chin Yong, Chandrashekar, Hoskote, Turner, Christopher, Manji, Hadi, Rossor, Alexander M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2019
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Neurological Rarities
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6580780/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30282763
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/practneurol-2018-002016
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author Kok, Chin Yong
Chandrashekar, Hoskote
Turner, Christopher
Manji, Hadi
Rossor, Alexander M
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description Compressive lesions of the spinal cord usually cause a syndrome of upper motor neurone weakness, spasticity and sensory loss below the level of the lesion. It has long been recognised that compressive cervical cord lesions may present as isolated lower motor neurone weakness of the upper limbs, a syndrome termed cervical spondylotic amyotrophy. We describe two patients presenting with isolated lower motor neurone weakness of the lower limbs in association with a compressive cord lesion at T11/12, a condition we have termed thoracic spondylotic amyotrophy.
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spelling pubmed-65807802019-07-02 Can compressive thoracic cord lesions cause a pure lower motor neurone syndrome? Kok, Chin Yong Chandrashekar, Hoskote Turner, Christopher Manji, Hadi Rossor, Alexander M Pract Neurol Neurological Rarities Compressive lesions of the spinal cord usually cause a syndrome of upper motor neurone weakness, spasticity and sensory loss below the level of the lesion. It has long been recognised that compressive cervical cord lesions may present as isolated lower motor neurone weakness of the upper limbs, a syndrome termed cervical spondylotic amyotrophy. We describe two patients presenting with isolated lower motor neurone weakness of the lower limbs in association with a compressive cord lesion at T11/12, a condition we have termed thoracic spondylotic amyotrophy. BMJ Publishing Group 2019-02 2018-10-03 /pmc/articles/PMC6580780/ /pubmed/30282763 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/practneurol-2018-002016 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2018. Re-use permitted under CC BY. Published by BMJ. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to copy, redistribute, remix, transform and build upon this work for any purpose, provided the original work is properly cited, a link to the licence is given, and indication of whether changes were made. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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title_full Can compressive thoracic cord lesions cause a pure lower motor neurone syndrome?
title_fullStr Can compressive thoracic cord lesions cause a pure lower motor neurone syndrome?
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title_short Can compressive thoracic cord lesions cause a pure lower motor neurone syndrome?
title_sort can compressive thoracic cord lesions cause a pure lower motor neurone syndrome?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6580780/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/practneurol-2018-002016
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