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Useless hand of Oppenheim--magnetic resonance imaging findings
R J Coleman1, L Russon, K Blanshard
1Department of Neurology, St James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK.
Postgraduate Medical Journal
|February 1, 1993
Abstract:
A patient with multiple sclerosis developed a useless, deafferented left hand, as described previously by Oppenheim. Magnetic resonance imaging demonstrates that this is caused by an ipsilateral plaque of demyelination in the posterior columns of the cervical cord.