Restoration of erect posture in idiopathic camptocormia by electrical stimulation of the globus pallidus internus: Report of 2 cases

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1246-1250

  Sakas, Damianos E ^a   Panourias, Ioannis G ^a   Stavrinou, Lampis C ^a   Boviatsis, Efstathios J ^a   Themistocleous, Marios ^a   Stathis, Pantelis ^a   Tagaris, George ^a   Angelopoulos, Elias ^a   Gatzonis, Stylianos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bent spine syndrome; Bipedal walking; Camptocormia; Deep brain stimulation; Dystonia; Operative neuromodulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BENT SPINE SYNDROME; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CAMPTOCORMIA; CASE REPORT; DYSTONIC DISORDER; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WALKING; WHEELCHAIR;

ADULT; DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; FEMALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; POSTURE; SPINAL CURVATURES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649742747     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2010.3.JNS09981     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Albin RL, Young AB, Penney JB: The functional anatomy of basal ganglia disorders. Trends Neurosci 12:366-375, 1989
2. American Psychiatric Association: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, ed 4. Text Revision: DSM-IV-TR™. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association, 2000
3. Azher SN, Jankovic J: Camptocormia: pathogenesis, classification, and response to therapy. Neurology 65:355-359, 2005
4. Bar-Gad I, Morris G, Bergman H: Information processing, dimensionality reduction and reinforcement learning in the basal ganglia. Prog Neurobiol 71:439-473, 2003
5. Brown P, Eusebio A: Paradoxes of functional neurosurgery: clues from basal ganglia recordings. Mov Disord 23:12-20, 2008
6. Crompton RH, Vereecke EE, Thorpe SK: Locomotion and posture from the common hominoid ancestor to fully modern hominins, with special reference to the last common panin/hominin ancestor. J Anat 212:501-543, 2008
7. DeLong MR: Primate models of movement disorders of basal ganglia origin. Trends Neurosci 13:281-285, 1990
8. Djaldetti R, Melamed E: Camptocormia in Parkinson's disease: new insights. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 77:1205, 2006
9. Fahn S, Williams DT: Psychogenic dystonia. Adv Neurol 50:431-455, 1988
10. Ferraye MU, Debû B, Fraix V, Goetz L, Ardouin C, Yelnik J, et al: Effects of pedunculopontine nucleus area stimulation on gait disorders in Parkinson's disease. Brain 133:205-214, 2010
11. Geyer HL, Bressman SB: The diagnosis of dystonia. Lancet Neurol 5:780-790, 2006
12. Inzelberg R, Hattori N, Nisipeanu P, Abo Mouch S, Blumen SC, Carasso RL, et al: Camptocormia, axial dystonia, and parkinsonism: phenotypic heterogeneity of a parkin mutation. Neurology 60:1393-1394, 2003
13. Jahn K, Deutschländer A, Stephan T, Kalla R, Wiesmann M, Strupp M, et al: Imaging human supraspinal locomotor centers in brainstem and cerebellum. Neuroimage 39:786-792, 2008
14. Karbowski K: The old and the new camptocormia. Spine 24:1494-1498, 1999
15. Krauss JK, Yianni J, Loher TJ, Aziz TZ: Deep brain stimulation for dystonia. J Clin Neurophysiol 21:18-30, 2004
16. Laroche M, Delisle MB, Aziza R, Lagarrigue J, Mazieres B: Is camptocormia a primary muscular disease? Spine 20:1011-1016, 1995
17. Marsden CD, Obeso JA: The functions of the basal ganglia and the paradox of stereotaxic surgery in Parkinson's disease. Brain 117:877-897, 1994
18. Michelli F, Cersósimo M, Piedimonte F: Camptocormia in a patient with Parkinson disease: beneficial effects of pallidal deep brain stimulation. Case report. J Neurosurg 103:1081-1083, 2005
19. Nandi D, Parkin S, Scott R, Winter JL, Joint C, Gregory R, et al: Camptocormia treated with bilateral pallidal stimulation. J Neurosurg 97:461-466, 2002
20. Nieves AV, Miyasaki JM, Lang AE: Acute onset dystonic camptocormia caused by lenticular lesions. Mov Disord 16:177-180, 2001
21. Sakas DE, Kouyialis AT, Boviatsis EJ, Panourias IG, Stathis P, Tagaris G: Technical aspects and considerations of deep brain stimulation surgery for movement disorders. Acta Neurochir Suppl 97 (Pt 2):163-170, 2007
22. Sakas DE, Panourias IG, Boviatsis EJ, Themistocleous MS, Stavrinou LC, Stathis P, et al: Treatment of idiopathic head drop (camptocephalia) by deep brain stimulation of the globus pallidus internus. Case report. J Neurosurg 110:1271-1273, 2009
23. Sako W, Nishio M, Maruo T, Shimazu H, Matsuzaki K, Tamura T, et al: Subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation for camptocormia associated with Parkinson's disease. Mov Disord 15:1076-1079, 2009
24. Schäbitz WR, Glatz K, Schuhan C, Sommer C, Berger C, Schwaninger M, et al: Severe forward flexion of the trunk in Parkinson's disease: focal myopathy of the paraspinal muscles mimicking camptocormia. Mov Disord 18:408-414, 2003
25. Sławek J, Derejko M, Lass P: Camptocormia as a form of dystonia in Parkinson's disease. Eur J Neurol 10:107-108, 2003
26. Souques A, Rosanoff-Saloff A: La camptocormie. Rev Neurol 22:937-939, 1915
27. Tarsy D, Simon DK: Dystonia. N Engl J Med 355:818-829, 2006
28. Umapathi T, Chaudhry V, Cornblath D, Drachman D, Griffin J, Kuncl R: Head drop and camptocormia. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 73:1-7, 2002
29. Vitek JL: Pathophysiology of dystonia: a neuronal model. Mov Disord 17 (3 Suppl 3):S49-S62, 2002
30. Wunderlich S, Csoti I, Reiners K, Günthner-Lengsfeld T, Schnei der C, Becker G, et al: Camptocormia in Parkinson's disease mimicked by focal myositis of the paraspinal muscles. Mov Disord 17:598-600, 2002