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J Med Case Rep ; 10: 54, 2016 Mar 17.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26983673

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND: Monomelic amyotrophy is an uncommon, benign, unilateral disorder of the lower motor neurons, affecting predominantly the hand and forearm muscles. Proximal involvement of the arm and shoulder muscles is an unusual presentation that has been rarely reported in the literature. CASE PRESENTATION: A 28-year-old white man presented with insidious-onset, slowly progressive, unilateral weakness and atrophy of his left shoulder girdle and deltoid muscles. A neurological examination revealed weakness and atrophy in his left deltoid, infraspinatus and supraspinatus muscles. Electromyography demonstrated an active and chronic neurogenic pattern affecting his left C5 and C6 myotomes; magnetic resonance imaging of his cervical spine was normal. He did well with conservative treatment. CONCLUSIONS: Upper limb proximal form of monomelic amyotrophy is a rare clinical entity with a wide differential diagnosis. Physicians, especially neurologists, should be familiar with this benign condition to avoid inappropriately labeling patients as having amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and other disorders with less favorable outcomes.


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Cervical Vertebrae/pathology , Deltoid Muscle/pathology , Electromyography , Muscle, Skeletal/pathology , Physical Therapy Modalities , Spinal Muscular Atrophies of Childhood/diagnosis , Adult , Humans , Magnetic Resonance Imaging , Male , Spinal Muscular Atrophies of Childhood/physiopathology , Spinal Muscular Atrophies of Childhood/therapy , Treatment Outcome
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Hematol Oncol Stem Cell Ther ; 7(3): 116-9, 2014 Sep.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24954081

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Neuromyelitis optica (NMO), or Devic's syndrome, is an autoimmune central nervous system demyelinating disorder primarily affecting the spinal cord and the optic nerves. It is characterized by the presence of NMO antibodies, alongside clinical and radiological findings. NMO and NMO-spectrum disorders (NMO-SD) have been reported in autoimmune disorders, and are infrequently described as a paraneoplastic syndrome with cancers of lung, breast, and carcinoid tumors of the thyroid. We report a patient who presented with severe vomiting, blurring of vision, vertigo, diplopia, left hemiparesis and hemisensory loss and ataxia. She was found to have a longitudinally-extensive demyelinating lesion extending from the medulla to the upper cervical spinal cord on MRI. Her gastric endoscopy revealed carcinoid tumor of the stomach, and classic paraneoplastic antibodies in the serum were negative. She had extremely high serum gastrin level and high titer of NMO IgG autoantibody. The patient made an excellent recovery with tumor resection and immunotherapy, with both clinical and radiological improvement. On rare instances, NMO or NMO-SD may present as a paraneoplastic neurological syndrome associated with carcinoid tumor of the stomach.


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Carcinoid Tumor/complications , Neuromyelitis Optica/complications , Spine/pathology , Stomach Neoplasms/complications , Stomach/pathology , Adult , Carcinoid Tumor/blood , Carcinoid Tumor/pathology , Carcinoid Tumor/therapy , Female , Humans , Immunotherapy , Neuromyelitis Optica/blood , Neuromyelitis Optica/pathology , Neuromyelitis Optica/therapy , Stomach Neoplasms/blood , Stomach Neoplasms/pathology , Stomach Neoplasms/therapy
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