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Case Reports
. 1996 Sep 1;21(17):2023-5.
doi: 10.1097/00007632-199609010-00020.

Cervical kyphosis after resolution of myopathic head drop. A case report

J H Jaster  1 , T E Bertorini, M P Swims, F C Dohan Jr, P G Menke, T Becske, K E Mönkemüller
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Cervical kyphosis after resolution of myopathic head drop. A case report

J H Jaster et al. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). .

Abstract

Study design: This is a case report.

Objectives: To present a case of cervical kyphosis after resolution of myopathic head drop.

Summary of background data: Myopathic head drop is a severe and persistent local myopathy that never progresses beyond the neck extensor muscles.

Methods: A case is reported of a hospitalized psychiatric patient who experienced the sudden onset of severe neck extensor weakness consistent with myopathic head drop.

Results: Although myopathic head drop resolved after 2 years, it left a disabling residual skeletal deformity of the cervical spine.

Conclusions: Myopathic head drop may be a cause of cervical kyphosis.

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