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A Case of Delayed Treatment in Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy Presenting as Hemiplegia in an Elderly Female

Cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) is a degenerative disease of the spine that occurs mainly in the elderly, along with age-related changes in the spine. It has a varied presentation, from nonspecific paraesthesia and neck pain to hemiplegia and paraplegia, even quadriplegia, due to the compressi...

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Autores principales: Hechter, Sharon, Prasad, Ankita, Marin, Andrea C, Ghodasara, Kajal, Pavuluri, Sandeep, Taqvi, Zehra, Patel, Saniya H, Ji, Sophia, Cheriyath, Pramil
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9532013/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36225461
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.28776
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author Hechter, Sharon
Prasad, Ankita
Marin, Andrea C
Ghodasara, Kajal
Pavuluri, Sandeep
Taqvi, Zehra
Patel, Saniya H
Ji, Sophia
Cheriyath, Pramil
author_facet Hechter, Sharon
Prasad, Ankita
Marin, Andrea C
Ghodasara, Kajal
Pavuluri, Sandeep
Taqvi, Zehra
Patel, Saniya H
Ji, Sophia
Cheriyath, Pramil
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description Cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) is a degenerative disease of the spine that occurs mainly in the elderly, along with age-related changes in the spine. It has a varied presentation, from nonspecific paraesthesia and neck pain to hemiplegia and paraplegia, even quadriplegia, due to the compression of the cervical spine or nerves in the spinal canal or foramina. The diagnosis is often delayed, and cases may present as acute worsening and even hemiplegia mimicking stroke following trauma or neck manipulation. We present a case of CSM in an elderly female presenting with hemiplegia. There was a good recovery after surgical decompression. This case highlights the importance of a high index of suspicion and early diagnosis.
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spelling pubmed-95320132022-10-11 A Case of Delayed Treatment in Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy Presenting as Hemiplegia in an Elderly Female Hechter, Sharon Prasad, Ankita Marin, Andrea C Ghodasara, Kajal Pavuluri, Sandeep Taqvi, Zehra Patel, Saniya H Ji, Sophia Cheriyath, Pramil Cureus Internal Medicine Cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) is a degenerative disease of the spine that occurs mainly in the elderly, along with age-related changes in the spine. It has a varied presentation, from nonspecific paraesthesia and neck pain to hemiplegia and paraplegia, even quadriplegia, due to the compression of the cervical spine or nerves in the spinal canal or foramina. The diagnosis is often delayed, and cases may present as acute worsening and even hemiplegia mimicking stroke following trauma or neck manipulation. We present a case of CSM in an elderly female presenting with hemiplegia. There was a good recovery after surgical decompression. This case highlights the importance of a high index of suspicion and early diagnosis. Cureus 2022-09-04 /pmc/articles/PMC9532013/ /pubmed/36225461 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.28776 Text en Copyright © 2022, Hechter 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.
spellingShingle Internal Medicine
Hechter, Sharon
Prasad, Ankita
Marin, Andrea C
Ghodasara, Kajal
Pavuluri, Sandeep
Taqvi, Zehra
Patel, Saniya H
Ji, Sophia
Cheriyath, Pramil
A Case of Delayed Treatment in Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy Presenting as Hemiplegia in an Elderly Female
title A Case of Delayed Treatment in Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy Presenting as Hemiplegia in an Elderly Female
title_full A Case of Delayed Treatment in Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy Presenting as Hemiplegia in an Elderly Female
title_fullStr A Case of Delayed Treatment in Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy Presenting as Hemiplegia in an Elderly Female
title_full_unstemmed A Case of Delayed Treatment in Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy Presenting as Hemiplegia in an Elderly Female
title_short A Case of Delayed Treatment in Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy Presenting as Hemiplegia in an Elderly Female
title_sort case of delayed treatment in cervical spondylotic myelopathy presenting as hemiplegia in an elderly female
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9532013/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36225461
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.28776
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