Kok, CY;
Chandrashekar, H;
Turner, C;
Manji, H;
Rossor, AM;
(2019)
Can compressive thoracic cord lesions cause a pure lower motor neurone syndrome?
Practical Neurology
, 19
(1)
pp. 72-74.
10.1136/practneurol-2018-002016.
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Abstract
Compressive lesions of the spinal cord usually cause a syndrome of upper motor neurone weakness, spasticity and sensory loss below the level of the lesion. It has long been recognised that compressive cervical cord lesions may present as isolated lower motor neurone weakness of the upper limbs, a syndrome termed cervical spondylotic amyotrophy. We describe two patients presenting with isolated lower motor neurone weakness of the lower limbs in association with a compressive cord lesion at T11/12, a condition we have termed thoracic spondylotic amyotrophy.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Can compressive thoracic cord lesions cause a pure lower motor neurone syndrome? |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1136/practneurol-2018-002016 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1136/practneurol-2018-002016 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to copy, redistribute, remix, transform and build upon this work for any purpose, provided the original work is properly cited, a link to the licence is given, and indication of whether changes were made. See: https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/. |
| Keywords: | Motor, motor neurone disease, myelopathy, neurophysiology |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10058252 |
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