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Lower Motor Neuron Syndrome Following Radiotherapy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

Sandra L. Horowitz  and
John D. Stewart
Sandra L. Horowitz
Affiliation:
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Division of Neurology, Montreal General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec
John D. Stewart*
Affiliation:
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Division of Neurology, Montreal General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec
*
Division of Neurology, Montreal General Hospital, 1650 Cedar Avenue, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1A4.
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A 33 year old man developed bilateral leg weakness two years following radiotherapy to the pelvis and lower abdomen for the treatment of a seminoma. Clinical and electrophysiological examinations and nerve and muscle biopsies suggest that this is an example of either post-irradiation myelopathy selectively affecting the anterior horn cells in the lower spinal cord or a purely motor lumbo-sacral radiculopathy.

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Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , February 1983 , pp. 56 - 58
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation 1983

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