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Arch Neurocien 2010; 15 (3)

Camptocormia

González-Aguilar A

Language: Spanish
References: 16
Page: 168-170
PDF size: 98.30 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Camptocormia is more of a syndrome rather than a sign, which was first described in 1818 by Brodie but was coined in 1915 by Rosanoff-Saloff Souques and originally considered as a psychogenic disorder found in soldiers who had been sent to the front lines in the First and Second World Wars. With time we have found it is becoming an increasingly recognized feature of parkinsonian, dystonic, and neuromuscular disorders, spinal deformities, cerebral vascular disease and other (endocrinopathies associated to drugs, etc.). This paper describes etiologies that should be suspect in patients, providing an aid for proper identification and diagnosis of these not sufficiently emphasized events causing less experienced doctors to miss them altogether.


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