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Surgical Treatment of Propriospinal Myoclonus: A Case Report

Propriospinal myoclonus (PSM) is a rare segmental movement disorder characterized by repetitive irregular myoclonic jerks of the trunk and/or axial limbs at the resting state. It is imperative to make a correct diagnosis as other movement disorders can be mistaken for or mask PSM. Therefore, a batte...

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Autores principales: Baker, David L, Harkey, Thomas J, Khaleel, Mohammed H, Howard, Antonio T, Palys, Viktoras
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9128789/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35637808
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.24445
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description Propriospinal myoclonus (PSM) is a rare segmental movement disorder characterized by repetitive irregular myoclonic jerks of the trunk and/or axial limbs at the resting state. It is imperative to make a correct diagnosis as other movement disorders can be mistaken for or mask PSM. Therefore, a battery of neuroimaging and neurophysiological testing must be undertaken. In our case report, we discuss a patient who was diagnosed with PSM concurrently with cervical degenerative stenosis and then had a successful outcome via surgical decompression and arthrodesis of the cervical spine. We documented the patient’s postoperative course and achievement of complete remission, sustained at a 41-month follow-up. We then grouped our case together with five other PSM cases in the literature to offer readers a broader context of the role of surgical spinal intervention in ameliorating PSM.
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spelling pubmed-91287892022-05-29 Surgical Treatment of Propriospinal Myoclonus: A Case Report Baker, David L Harkey, Thomas J Khaleel, Mohammed H Howard, Antonio T Palys, Viktoras Cureus Neurology Propriospinal myoclonus (PSM) is a rare segmental movement disorder characterized by repetitive irregular myoclonic jerks of the trunk and/or axial limbs at the resting state. It is imperative to make a correct diagnosis as other movement disorders can be mistaken for or mask PSM. Therefore, a battery of neuroimaging and neurophysiological testing must be undertaken. In our case report, we discuss a patient who was diagnosed with PSM concurrently with cervical degenerative stenosis and then had a successful outcome via surgical decompression and arthrodesis of the cervical spine. We documented the patient’s postoperative course and achievement of complete remission, sustained at a 41-month follow-up. We then grouped our case together with five other PSM cases in the literature to offer readers a broader context of the role of surgical spinal intervention in ameliorating PSM. Cureus 2022-04-24 /pmc/articles/PMC9128789/ /pubmed/35637808 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.24445 Text en Copyright © 2022, Baker et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_sort surgical treatment of propriospinal myoclonus: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9128789/
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