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Neuropathologic Observations

MAJ Carl H. Gunderson; Gilbert B. Solitare, MD

Arch Neurol. 1968;18(6):675-679.

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THE SYNDROME of mirror movements is a congenital disorder of motor control in which voluntary movements initiated in one arm or leg are copied by the other. Usually, children with this syndrome have no other evidence of neurologic disease and improve as they grow older, although some degree of synkinesia may persist. Although mirror movements may be transmitted as an isolated autosomal dominant disorder, more often it is reported in association with congenital syndromes affecting other organ systems.

The Klippel-Feil syndrome is characterized by a congenital failure of cervical segmentation resulting in apparent fusion of two or more cervical vertebrae.¹ In 1932 Bauman² described four children with these osseous anomalies who also had mirror movements. Four years later Avery and Rentfro³ published the only autopsy observations on a case with both disorders. The present report describes the autopsy findings in a second such case with certain . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
USA, San Francisco; New Haven, Conn

From the Department of Neuropsychiatry, Medical Field Service School, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Tex, and the Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Oct 7, 1967; accepted Oct 23.

Read in part before the 15th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, Minneapolis, April 25, 1963.

The views of the authors do not purport to reflect the position of the Department of the Army.

Reprint requests to Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn 06510 (Dr. Solitare).

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