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- Title
Prolonged Motor Weakness With Syringomyelia in Japanese Encephalitis: A Case Study.
- Authors
Young Moon Kim; Youngkook Kim; Jeehae Oh; Hae Rim Kim; Joo Hyun Park
- Abstract
Japanese encephalitis (JE) shows characteristic brain lesions, including bilateral thalamus, midbrain, internal capsule, basal ganglia, and occasionally involves an anterior horn cell. We encountered a case of a 44-year-old man who initially presented with encephalitis, which was finally diagnosed as Japanese encephalomyelitis with syringomyelia. The patient showed severe motor weakness followed by delayed recovery of functional motor activities. Cervical magnetic resonance imaging showed syrinx formation at the C5 level suggesting myelitis, and abnormal electromyographic findings were noted. Clinicians should consider the possibility that the spinal cord may be involved; an example would be syringomyelia due to myelitis in a case of JE presenting with severe and prolonged motor weakness.
- Subjects
TREATMENT of encephalitis; SYRINGOMYELIA; MOVEMENT disorders; JAPANESE people; BRAIN diseases; THALAMUS diseases; DISEASES
- Publication
Annals of Rehabilitation Medicine, 2015, Vol 39, Issue 5, p821
- ISSN
2234-0645
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.5535/arm.2015.39.5.821