Case of symptomatic propriospinal myoclonus evolving toward acute "myoclonic status"

Movement Disorders

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1646-1650

  Manconi, Mauro ^a   Sferraza, Barbara ^a   Iannaccone, Sandro ^a   Massimo, Antonio ^a   Zucconi, Marco ^a   Ferini Strambi, Luigi ^a  

^a VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Focal spinal myoclonus; Myoclonic status; Propriospinal myoclonus; Sleep

Indexed keywords

ATENOLOL; CHLORTALIDONE; CLONAZEPAM; GABAPENTIN; LORAZEPAM; VALPROIC ACID; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MYOCLONUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; DRUG EFFECT; EYE MOVEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NERVE CONDUCTION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPINAL NERVE; SPINE FRACTURE;

ANTICONVULSANTS; CLONAZEPAM; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, MYOCLONIC; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL CONDUCTION; SPINAL FRACTURES; SPINAL NERVES; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 33644947214     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.20645     Document Type: Article

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