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01.04.2016 | Neuro-Images
Anterocollis and startle myoclonus due to Lyme meningomyeloradiculitis
verfasst von:
Andrea Schneider, Barbara Pischinger, Sibylle Wimmer, Raffi Topakian
Erschienen in:
Acta Neurologica Belgica
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Excerpt
A 26-year-old previously healthy man was admitted to our hospital reporting a 5-month history of fatigue and malaise, headaches, pain in the neck with occasional radiation in both arms, and, new-onset episodic abnormal head posture and involuntary brief jerks of both arms. External magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the cervical spine, without contrast application, had been assessed as normal. Prior treatment with physiotherapy, lidocaine injections into neck muscles, and oral medication including diclofenac, prednisolon, tetrazepam and tizanidin had been inefficacious. …