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FILIPPO BRIGHINA

Dropped head as an unusual presenting sign of myasthenia gravis

  • Authors: D'AMELIO M; DI BENEDETTO N; RAGONESE P; DANIELE O; BRIGHINA F; FIERRO B; SAVETTIERI G
  • Publication year: 2007
  • Type: Articolo in rivista
  • OA Link: http://hdl.handle.net/10447/8009

Abstract

Prominent or isolated weakness of cervical extensor muscles is a relatively rare clinical sign. Commonly, this is known as “dropped-head syndrome”. This abnormal flexion of the head may occur in a variety of neuromuscular diseases and in a few non-neurological disorders as well. The case we describe concerns a 61-year-old woman with dropped-head syndrome as the unique complaint of myasthenia gravis