Vangheluwe, Riet and Postma, Linda and Ten Tusscher, Marcel and Baijens, Laura WJ and Oostenbrugge, Robert van (2014) Post-traumatic Winking Induced by Extension of the Hand: A Case Report of a Novel Synkinesis. European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 1 (1). pp. 1-5. ISSN 2284-2594
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Abstract
Several synkinesis syndromes have been reported in the literature. Synkinesis syndromes are rare and are most commonly congenital or follow post-traumatic reinnervation. We describe a novel synkinesis syndrome that developed several months after cervical spinal cord infarction due to a herniated disc in a 29-year-old woman. When the patient overstretched the extensor muscles of the right hand, the right upper eyelid raised automatically and nasal congestion developed. We hypothesize that aberrant reinnervation of the intermediolateral columns of the spinal cord at level C8–T2 by motor neurons of the extensor muscles of the hand occurred.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Synkinesis, winking, hand, reinnervation, extensor muscles |
| Subjects: | 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) > 616 Malattie (classificare qui la Clinica medica, la medicina basata sull'evidenza, la Medicina interna, la Medicina sperimentale) |
| Depositing User: | Chiara D'Arpa |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Sep 2016 15:28 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Sep 2016 15:28 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/14953 |
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