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Spinal myoclonus

Department of Neurology, University of Colorado Medical Center, Denver.

The focal involuntary muscular contractions of spinal myoclonus have been associated with neoplastic, infectious, traumatic, and degenerative lesions of the spinal cord. Four patients are described here. In two, the myoclonus is associated with severe cervical spondylitis. One patient had herpes zoster. In the fourth, a segment of thoracic spinal cord is narrow and probably atrophic. Both tetrabenazine and clonazepam were therapeutically effective.

Reprint requests should be addressed to Dr. Hoehn, Box A035, University of Colorado Medical Center, 4200 East 9th Avenue, Denver, Colorado 80262.

This study was supported by U. S. Public Health Service-National Institutes of Health grant NS-09199 and grant (RR-00051) from the General Clinical Research Center Programs of the Division of Research Resources, National Institutes of Health.

Accepted for publication November 9, 1976.

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