[Symptomatic paroxysmal dystonia (non-kinesigenic forms): two new cases].
We report two new cases of symptomatic paroxysmal non-kinesigenic dystonia. The first is a 68-year-old woman with paroxysmal spontaneous dystonic spasms in her right arm lasting 1 minute. They occurred 1-2/day, a few months after a cerebral infarction (left internal capsule and left lenticular nucleus) which occurred 6 years ago. The second is a 30-year-old woman with a 7-year-history of spontaneous dystonic postures (flexion spasms) in her left arm lasting 15 minutes and occurring monthly. In this case an Arnold-Chiari malformation with cervical syringomyelia was discovered.
Uterga
J M
JM
Sección de Neurología, Hospital de Basurto (Osakidetza), Bilbao.
Portillo
M F
MF
Iriondo
I
I
Cortina
C
C
Villaverde
F J
FJ
Huete
B
B
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001139:Arnold-Chiari Malformation / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology; D004421:Dystonia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007699:Kinesthesis / Q000502:physiology*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D013595:Syringomyelia / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology
Distonía paroxística sintomática (variedad acinesigénica): dos nuevos casos.