Treatable Spastic Tetraparesis Caused by Overshunting-associated Myelopathy

Intern Med. 2023 Dec 15;62(24):3717-3718. doi: 10.2169/internalmedicine.1655-23. Epub 2023 May 10.

Authors

Tatsuya Ueno¹, Kensuke Murakami², Akira Arai¹, Masahiko Tomiyama³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurology, Aomori Prefectural Central Hospital, Japan.
² Department of Neurosurgery, Aomori Prefectural Central Hospital, Japan.
³ Department of Neurology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan.

No abstract available

Keywords: myelopathy; overshunting-associated myelopathy; spasticity; ventriculoperitoneal shunt surgery.

MeSH terms

Humans
Muscle Spasticity / etiology
Spinal Cord Compression* / diagnostic imaging
Spinal Cord Compression* / etiology
Spinal Cord Compression* / surgery
Spinal Cord Diseases* / diagnostic imaging
Spinal Cord Diseases* / etiology