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  • Title: [Progressive limb-kinetic apraxia with myoclonus focal atrophy in the postcentral gyrus and the supplementary motor area].
    Author: Ishiwata T, Suzuki A, Mochizuki H, Okuma Y, Mitani K, Mizuno Y.
    Journal: No To Shinkei; 2000 Oct; 52(10):925-8. PubMed ID: 11070925.
    Abstract:
    We report a 70-year-old right handed man with a 5-year history of slowly progressive clumsiness of his left hand. A neurological examination disclosed mild rigidity and myoclonus in his left hand. He showed limb-kinetic apraxia, but neither ideational apraxia nor ideomotor apraxia was present. Aphasia and agnosia were also absent. He was thought to have the primary progressive limb-kinetic apraxia clinically. Brain CT and MRI revealed focal atrophy in the right postcentral gyrus and the supplementary motor area. A positron emission tomography (PET) study showed diffuse decrement of cerebral blood flow, predominantly in the right hemisphere. The decrease in the uptake of [18F]-Fluoro-deoxyglucose also revealed glucose hypo-metabolism, especially in the right frontal and parietal lobe. Striatal [11C]NMSP and [18F]FDOPA uptake were also reduced in an asymmetric pattern. These findings suggest that our patient is likely to have corticobasal degeneration. Transcranial magnetic stimulation using double pulse paradigm revealed a decrease in the level of cortico-cortical inhibition in the motor cortex on the affected side. Our results indicate increase in the excitability of motor cortical neurons in primary progressive limb-kinetic apraxia, likely due to a decreased excitability of cortico-cortical inhibitory mechanism as a result of focal degeneration of cortical neurons.
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