Attacks of retropulsion and cerebellar meningioma.
An elderly female patient had a two-year history of stereotyped spontaneous episodes of retropulsion, associated with head retraction, without loss of consciousness, hypertonia, dystonia, or atonia. Results of neurologic examination were normal. After removal of a right hemispheral cerebellar fibroblastic meningioma, the attacks were no longer observed. Attacks of retropulsion and cerebellar meningioma constitute an unusual clinical association.
D000368:Aged; D002528:Cerebellar Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D005684:Gait; D006801:Humans; D008579:Meningioma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*