Dissociated weakness of sternocleidomastoid and trapezius muscles with lesions in the CNS
- 1 May 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurology
- Vol. 38 (5) , 796
- https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.38.5.796
Abstract
We describe three patients with lesions in the CNS that produced dissociated weakness of trapezius (TM) and sternocleidomastoid muscles (SCM). One patient with a right cerebral hemisphere lesion had left TM weakness and right SCM weakness. A second, with a brainstem lesion, and a third, with a high cervical cord lesion, had TM weakness with preserved SCM strength. We discuss the findings according to the known neuroanatomy.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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