Stiff man syndrome with invasive thymic carcinoma.

Stiff man syndrome is a rare disease characterized by painful chronic spasms in the muscle and skeletal system. This syndrome is an autoimmune neurologic disorder which is associated with thymoma. We treated a 32-year-old male patient with a type C thymoma (based on the World Health Organization classification) who had stiff man syndrome. The patient underwent an extended thymectomy which brought about alleviation of his symptoms.

Citation

Manouchehr Aghajanzadeh, Ali Alavi, Gilda Aghajanzadeh, Sara Massahania. Stiff man syndrome with invasive thymic carcinoma. Archives of Iranian medicine. 2013 Mar;16(3):195-6

Mesh Tags

PMID: 23432176

search → result