Clinical neurophysiology practice · 2018
Holmes' or functional tremor?
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Bocci Tommaso, Ardolino Gianluca, Parenti Laura, Barloscio Davide, De Rosa Anna, Priori Alberto, Sartucci Ferdinando
Аннотация
OBJECTIVE: Holmes tremor is a rare kind of hyperkinetic movement disorder, clinically characterized by irregular, monolateral, high-amplitude jerks, sharing a quite similar frequency with those observed in Parkinson's disease; its generation likely relies on a combined involvement of cerebello-thalamic and nigrostriatal pathways.
METHODS: We report the case of a man with a combined resting-postural-kinetic tremor. Neuroimaging revealed an intracranial dermoid cyst at the right pontocerebellar angle with brainstem dislocation. We performed an extensive electrophysiological assessment from the extensor digitorum communis (EDC) and flexor carpi radialis (FCR) muscles.
RESULTS: Both the spontaneous variability of tremor frequency and frequency entrainment argued against an organic aetiology. Polymyography revealed: 1) a paradoxical increase of tremor amplitude with mass loading; 2) jerks' synchronization between antagonistic muscles during voluntary contralateral motor performances; 3) tremor inhibition while asking the patient to make a ballistic movement.
CONCLUSIONS: We suggest a complete psychogenic genesis or, at least in part, a possible co-existence of a rubral tremor with functional traits.
SIGNIFICANCE: Here, we propose a simple and fast test battery for an early diagnosis of functional tremor. Our results prompt further studies to re-define electrodiagnostic criteria in hyperkinetic movement disorders, possibly updating the floating border between organic and psychogenic disease.
METHODS: We report the case of a man with a combined resting-postural-kinetic tremor. Neuroimaging revealed an intracranial dermoid cyst at the right pontocerebellar angle with brainstem dislocation. We performed an extensive electrophysiological assessment from the extensor digitorum communis (EDC) and flexor carpi radialis (FCR) muscles.
RESULTS: Both the spontaneous variability of tremor frequency and frequency entrainment argued against an organic aetiology. Polymyography revealed: 1) a paradoxical increase of tremor amplitude with mass loading; 2) jerks' synchronization between antagonistic muscles during voluntary contralateral motor performances; 3) tremor inhibition while asking the patient to make a ballistic movement.
CONCLUSIONS: We suggest a complete psychogenic genesis or, at least in part, a possible co-existence of a rubral tremor with functional traits.
SIGNIFICANCE: Here, we propose a simple and fast test battery for an early diagnosis of functional tremor. Our results prompt further studies to re-define electrodiagnostic criteria in hyperkinetic movement disorders, possibly updating the floating border between organic and psychogenic disease.