Neurogenic muscle hypertrophy: a case report
The Korean Journal of Pain
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: 270-273, 2016.
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ABSTRACT
Muscular hypertrophy is caused mainly due to myopathic disorder. But, it is also rarely produced by neurogenic disorder. A 74-year-old woman complained of right calf pain with hypertrophy for several years. Recent lumbar spine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed central and lateral canal narrowing at the L4-L5 intervertebral space. Lower extremity MRI revealed fatty change of right medial head of the gastrocnemius and soleus, causing right calf hypertrophy. Electrodiagnostic examinations including electromyography and nerve conduction velocity testing demonstrated 5(th) lumbar and 1(st) sacral polyradiculopathy. Integrating all the results, the diagnosis was neurogenic muscle hypertrophy. Neurogenic muscle hypertrophy is very rare, but we recommend that clinicians consider this problem when a patient complains of lower limb hypertrophy and pain.
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Asunto principal:
Polirradiculopatía
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Radiculopatía
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Columna Vertebral
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Esteroides
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Imagen por Resonancia Magnética
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Debilidad Muscular
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Extremidad Inferior
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Diagnóstico
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Electromiografía
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Cabeza
Tipo de estudio:
Estudio diagnóstico
Límite:
Anciano
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Femenino
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Humanos
Idioma:
Inglés
Revista:
The Korean Journal of Pain
Año:
2016
Tipo del documento:
Artículo
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