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Joseph C. Marcus, MB, BCh, FCP(SA)

Arch Neurol. 1989;46(1):60-61.

Abstract
• Fifteen of 17 children with hemiplegia were found to have weakness of the trapezius muscle but a normally functioning sternocleidomastoid muscle. Very few other cranial nerve-mediated deficits were found. The difference between the two muscles, both supplied by the spinal accessory nerve, may depend on a phylogenetic basis, with the former behaving like an appendicular muscle and the latter like an axial muscle.

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Neurology, State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication July 3, 1988.

Presented in part at the 14th national meeting of the Child Neurology Society, Memphis, Oct 10, 1985.

Reprint requests to Department of Neurology, State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn, 450 Clarkson Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11203 (Dr Marcus).

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