PRIMARY SENSORY NEUROPATHY WITH MUSCULAR CHANGES ASSOCIATED WITH CARCINOMA
PRIMARY SENSORY NEUROPATHY WITH MUSCULAR CHANGES ASSOCIATED WITH CARCINOMA
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DOI:
10.1136/jnnp.11.2.73
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发表时间:
1948-01-01
影响因子:
11
通讯作者:
DENNYBROWN, D
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作者:
DENNYBROWN, D
Among the many clinical forms of polyneuritis, one that affects sensory function alone is sufficiently unusual to attract more than passing attention. In milder forms of infective polyneuritis and in unusual post-diphtheritic cases the clinical phenomena may be predominantly sensory, but evidence of muscular weakness and wasting, particularly in proximal muscle groups, can usually be demonstrated. The so-called diabetic ataxia andalcoholic tabes are also not clear-cut sensory disorders. Herpetic zona is not only confined to a single or related group of nerve roots, but is also regularly accompanied by a motor component,-an anterior poliomyelitis, which is more evident if the involved segments supply the musculature of a limb. The syndrome presented below could be classed among the ataxias, pre-senting as it does a severe disorganization of movement. From the first the severity of loss of general sensation, beginning at the periphery of the limbs, advancing to include the trunk, and in one case the face, differentiated the clinical picture from that of tabes dorsalis. The coexistence of imyositis" was not suspected during life. Both patients* were observed in 1939, and though the pathological material has been pre7rved, the part of the clinical record of Case 2 dealIng1ith the last two months of the patient's illness was lost during the war years by the hospital where he was admitted; Sufficient, however, remains from rny personal record of the earlier part of his illness to indicate the identity of the process in the two patients.