Spinal surgery for a late-onset axial myopathy

Axial myopathies with paraspinal predominance usually present with dropped head, abnormal posture or rigidity of the spine. Management of axial myopathy can be difficult and there is little data in the literature about surgical treatment. We discuss a case of axial myopathy with late-onset scoliosis...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Karunaratne, Kushan, Wade, Charles, Lehovsky, Jan, Viegas, Stuart
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2021
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7938980/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33674300
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2020-240738
_version_ 1783661674635460608
author Karunaratne, Kushan
Wade, Charles
Lehovsky, Jan
Viegas, Stuart
author_facet Karunaratne, Kushan
Wade, Charles
Lehovsky, Jan
Viegas, Stuart
author_sort Karunaratne, Kushan
collection PubMed
description Axial myopathies with paraspinal predominance usually present with dropped head, abnormal posture or rigidity of the spine. Management of axial myopathy can be difficult and there is little data in the literature about surgical treatment. We discuss a case of axial myopathy with late-onset scoliosis and dropped head, focusing on the surgical management of the case.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-7938980
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2021
publisher BMJ Publishing Group
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-79389802021-03-21 Spinal surgery for a late-onset axial myopathy Karunaratne, Kushan Wade, Charles Lehovsky, Jan Viegas, Stuart BMJ Case Rep Case Report Axial myopathies with paraspinal predominance usually present with dropped head, abnormal posture or rigidity of the spine. Management of axial myopathy can be difficult and there is little data in the literature about surgical treatment. We discuss a case of axial myopathy with late-onset scoliosis and dropped head, focusing on the surgical management of the case. BMJ Publishing Group 2021-03-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7938980/ /pubmed/33674300 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2020-240738 Text en © BMJ Publishing Group Limited 2021. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
spellingShingle Case Report
Karunaratne, Kushan
Wade, Charles
Lehovsky, Jan
Viegas, Stuart
Spinal surgery for a late-onset axial myopathy
title Spinal surgery for a late-onset axial myopathy
title_full Spinal surgery for a late-onset axial myopathy
title_fullStr Spinal surgery for a late-onset axial myopathy
title_full_unstemmed Spinal surgery for a late-onset axial myopathy
title_short Spinal surgery for a late-onset axial myopathy
title_sort spinal surgery for a late-onset axial myopathy
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7938980/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33674300
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2020-240738
work_keys_str_mv AT karunaratnekushan spinalsurgeryforalateonsetaxialmyopathy
AT wadecharles spinalsurgeryforalateonsetaxialmyopathy
AT lehovskyjan spinalsurgeryforalateonsetaxialmyopathy
AT viegasstuart spinalsurgeryforalateonsetaxialmyopathy

Ejemplares similares