Relationship between muscular tone, movement and periarticular new bone formation in postcoma-unaware (PC-U) patients
作者:
TSURA.,
SAZBONL.,
LOTEMM.,
期刊:
Brain Injury
(Taylor Available online 1996)
卷期:
Volume 10,
issue 4
页码: 259-262
ISSN:0269-9052
年代: 1996
DOI:10.1080/026990596124430
出版商: Taylor&Francis
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
Forty-eight post-traumaticbrain-injured patients in postcoma-unawareness (PC-U) state, are included in this study. All recovered consciousness at least 1 month after the accident. The muscular tone and movement of all limbs was examined. At least two X-rays of the big joints were taken. Periarticular new bone formation appeared in 26 patients. This heterotopic ossification occurs in severely injured patients, primarily in proximal joints of the upper and lower extremities. Their aetiology in brain injury is unknown. Risk factors include prolonged coma, tone and movements in the involved extremity, and associated fractures. We found that the appearance of periarticular new bone formation had a close correlation with pathological movement (paresis or plegia), a borderline correlation with hypertonus, and no correlation with hypotonus or with associated fractures.
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