Task-specific focal hand dystonia with usage of a spoon.
We describe a 30-year-old woman who suffered from an unusual task-specific focal hand dystonia, which dominantly occurred with use of a spoon; there were no other activities affected, except for mild writer's dystonia on same side. This is the first report of a spoon-related focal dystonia.
Song
In-Uk
IU
Department of Neurology, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of KoreaKangnam St. Mary's Hospital, Seoul, South Korea.
Kim
Joong-Seok
JS
Kim
Hee-Tae
HT
Lee
Kwang-Soo
KS
D000328:Adult; D003297:Cooking and Eating Utensils; D020821:Dystonic Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006225:Hand / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans