Cervical astrocytoma with arm rigidity: clinical and electrophysiologic features
Weinberg, D.H.; Logigian, E.L.; Kelly, J.J.
Neurology 38(10): 1635-1637
1988
ISSN/ISBN: 0028-3878 PMID: 3419609 Document Number: 308896
A 67-year-old woman developed a fixed, flexed posture of the right arm and hand due to a cervical astrocytoma. EMG showed continuous motor unit potential firing at 8 to 15 Hz with an abnormal silent period, presumably due to the loss of local spinal cord inhibitory interneuronal input.
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