Delayed postirradiation camptocormia

BMJ Case Rep. 2013 Aug 19:2013:bcr2013200083. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2013-200083.

Abstract

Radiotherapy may cause central or peripheral nervous system complications, reported examples being myelopathy, brachial/lumbosacral plexopathies or predominantly motor lumbosacral radiculopathy. In the literature some studies regard camptocormia as a paravertebral myopathy and others as of neurogenic origin. We present a patient who developed camptocormia, 42 years after radiation therapy to the para-aortic and inguinal area.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Video-Audio Media

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Muscular Atrophy, Spinal / diagnosis
  • Muscular Atrophy, Spinal / etiology*
  • Orchiectomy
  • Radiation Injuries / complications*
  • Radiation Injuries / diagnosis
  • Spinal Curvatures / diagnosis
  • Spinal Curvatures / etiology*
  • Teratoma / radiotherapy*
  • Teratoma / surgery
  • Testicular Neoplasms / radiotherapy*
  • Testicular Neoplasms / surgery
  • Time Factors
  • Young Adult

Supplementary concepts

  • Camptocormia