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BMJ Case Rep
; 20132013 Aug 19.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-23960150
ABSTRACT
Radiotherapy may cause central or peripheral nervous system complications, reported examples being myelopathy, brachial/lumbosacral plexopathies or predominantly motor lumbosacral radiculopathy. In the literature some studies regard camptocormia as a paravertebral myopathy and others as of neurogenic origin. We present a patient who developed camptocormia, 42 years after radiation therapy to the para-aortic and inguinal area.
Subject(s)
Muscular Atrophy, Spinal/etiology , Radiation Injuries/complications , Spinal Curvatures/etiology , Teratoma/radiotherapy , Testicular Neoplasms/radiotherapy , Aged , Humans , Magnetic Resonance Imaging , Male , Muscular Atrophy, Spinal/diagnosis , Orchiectomy , Radiation Injuries/diagnosis , Spinal Curvatures/diagnosis , Teratoma/surgery , Testicular Neoplasms/surgery , Time Factors , Young Adult
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Neurology
; 61(11): 1600, 2003 Dec 09.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-14663049