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Case Reports
. 2015 Dec;5(6):472-474.
doi: 10.1212/CPJ.0000000000000165.

A case of alcoholic pellagra encephalopathy presenting with spinal myoclonus

Kwiyoung Park  1 , Tomoko Oeda  1 , Hideyuki Sawada  1
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A case of alcoholic pellagra encephalopathy presenting with spinal myoclonus

Kwiyoung Park et al. Neurol Clin Pract. 2015 Dec.
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Surface EMG recording of myoclonus Figure. Electric discharges started in the tibialis anterior and spread toward the rostral muscles and up to the T7 level (cal.: 200 μV; 200 ms).
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