Teaching Video NeuroImages: Electromyographic variation in stiff-person syndrome
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Teaching Video NeuroImages: Electromyographic variation in stiff-person syndrome.
A 58-year-old man diagnosed with stiff-person syndrome presented with increased axial muscle tone (video 1, links.lww.com/WNL/A42). A successional electromyographic video in the right rectus abdominis demonstrated a large quantity of continuous motor unit potentials at rest. One minute after administration of diazepam, motor unit potentials were extraordinarily attenuated. However, 10 minutes a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neurology
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0028-3878,1526-632X
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000004831