Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Wertheim cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Spinal myoclonus following a peripheral nerve injury: a case report. | Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury BioMed Central Open Access Case report Spinal myoclonus following a peripheral nerve injury a case report Feray Karaali Savrun Derya Uluduz Gokhan Erkol and Meral E Kiziltan Address Department of Neurology Istanbul University Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty Istanbul Turkey Email Feray Karaali Savrun - feraykaraali@ Derya Uluduz - deryaulu@ Gokhan Erkol - gerkol@ Meral E Kiziltan - meralekiziltan@ Corresponding author Published 6 August 2008 Received 7 January 2008 Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2008 3 18 doi l 749-7221-3-18 Accepted 6 August 2008 This article is available from http content 3 1 18 2008 Savrun et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Spinal myoclonus is a rare disorder characterized by myoclonic movements in muscles that originate from several segments of the spinal cord and usually associated with laminectomy spinal cord injury post-operative lumbosacral radiculopathy spinal extradural block myelopathy due to demyelination cervical spondylosis and many other diseases. On rare occasions it can originate from the peripheral nerve lesions and be mistaken for peripheral myoclonus. Careful history taking and electrophysiological evaluation is important in differential diagnosis. The aim of this report is to evaluate the clinical and electrophysiological characteristics and treatment results of a case with spinal myoclonus following a peripheral nerve injury without any structural lesion. Background Myoclonus is defined as a sudden muscular contraction that usually indicates disease of the central nervous system and may be cortical subcortical or spinal in
