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Report of a Case

Stefan Kasperek, MD; Stanislaw Zebrowski, MD

Arch Neurol. 1971;24(1):22-30.

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ABOUT 40 cases of the stiff-man syndrome (SMS) have been reported,^1-14 including the original description by Moersch and Woltman.² The etiology is unknown, and direct evidence of the morphological substrate is still lacking; reported autopsies showed negative findings.^2,9,10,13 We have seen typical SMS caused by an inflammatory process involving the lower brain stem and spinal cord, with features of viral encephalomyelitis.

Report of a Case

A 49-year-old widow, a store worker, was admitted to the neurological department on May 9, 1968, because of painful spasms and stiffness of the arms, shoulders, and legs. She had had typhus in childhood and arthritis beginning in childhood with recurrence in 1959 and 1963. Because of frequent sore throats and signs of myocarditis, tonsillectomy was performed in 1960. Her sister had tuberculosis. The history of her only daughter is described below.

The present illness began in September 1967 with sacral . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Zabrze, Poland

From the Department of Neurology, Silesian Academy of Medicine, Zabrze, Poland.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Sept 8, 1970.

Reprint requests to Department of Neurology, Silesian Academy of Medicine, 3 maja 13, Zabrze, Poland.

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