Complicaciones de la radioterapia: fenómeno de Lhermitte gatillado por calor. Caso clínico

Lhermitte phenomenon is a neurological symptom described as a sensation of electric shock that radiates from the back towards the extremities, which appears when a patient flexes the neck. A transient myelopathy as a late complication of radiotherapy is associated with this symptom. It appears two t...

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Autores principales:	Faúndez-Salazar,Javier, San-Martín-Meza,Evelyn, Salgado-Fernández,Apolo
Lenguaje:	Spanish / Castilian
Publicado:	Sociedad Médica de Santiago 2019
Materias:	Melanoma Multiple Sclerosis Neoplasms, Radiotherapy Spinal Cord Diseases
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0034-988720190007009282019-11-04Complicaciones de la radioterapia: fenómeno de Lhermitte gatillado por calor. Caso clínicoFaúndez-Salazar,JavierSan-Martín-Meza,EvelynSalgado-Fernández,Apolo Melanoma Multiple Sclerosis Neoplasms, Radiotherapy Spinal Cord Diseases Lhermitte phenomenon is a neurological symptom described as a sensation of electric shock that radiates from the back towards the extremities, which appears when a patient flexes the neck. A transient myelopathy as a late complication of radiotherapy is associated with this symptom. It appears two to four months after treatment and disappears spontaneously. We report a 45 years old female with a neck malignant melanoma treated with surgery and adjuvant radiotherapy. She experienced the Lhermitte phenomenon that was triggered by heat. This phenomenon must be differentiated from the Uhthoff phenomenon.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Médica de SantiagoRevista médica de Chile v.147 n.7 20192019-07-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872019000700928es10.4067/S0034-98872019000700928
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topic	Melanoma Multiple Sclerosis Neoplasms, Radiotherapy Spinal Cord Diseases
spellingShingle	Melanoma Multiple Sclerosis Neoplasms, Radiotherapy Spinal Cord Diseases Faúndez-Salazar,Javier San-Martín-Meza,Evelyn Salgado-Fernández,Apolo Complicaciones de la radioterapia: fenómeno de Lhermitte gatillado por calor. Caso clínico
description	Lhermitte phenomenon is a neurological symptom described as a sensation of electric shock that radiates from the back towards the extremities, which appears when a patient flexes the neck. A transient myelopathy as a late complication of radiotherapy is associated with this symptom. It appears two to four months after treatment and disappears spontaneously. We report a 45 years old female with a neck malignant melanoma treated with surgery and adjuvant radiotherapy. She experienced the Lhermitte phenomenon that was triggered by heat. This phenomenon must be differentiated from the Uhthoff phenomenon.
author	Faúndez-Salazar,Javier San-Martín-Meza,Evelyn Salgado-Fernández,Apolo
author_facet	Faúndez-Salazar,Javier San-Martín-Meza,Evelyn Salgado-Fernández,Apolo
author_sort	Faúndez-Salazar,Javier
title	Complicaciones de la radioterapia: fenómeno de Lhermitte gatillado por calor. Caso clínico
title_short	Complicaciones de la radioterapia: fenómeno de Lhermitte gatillado por calor. Caso clínico
title_full	Complicaciones de la radioterapia: fenómeno de Lhermitte gatillado por calor. Caso clínico
title_fullStr	Complicaciones de la radioterapia: fenómeno de Lhermitte gatillado por calor. Caso clínico
title_full_unstemmed	Complicaciones de la radioterapia: fenómeno de Lhermitte gatillado por calor. Caso clínico
title_sort	complicaciones de la radioterapia: fenómeno de lhermitte gatillado por calor. caso clínico
publisher	Sociedad Médica de Santiago
publishDate	2019
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Complicaciones de la radioterapia: fenómeno de Lhermitte gatillado por calor. Caso clínico

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