| A case of myelopathy after electrical injury |
| Joo-Hong Min, Sang-Bae Ko, Jung-Joon Sung, Ohyun Kwon, and Kwang-Woo Lee |
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| Copyright © 2003 The Korean Society of Clinical Neurophysiology |
| This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium,
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| ABSTRACT |
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High voltage electrical injury can cause considerable damage to the nervous system including spinal cord, but, thepathophysiology of myelopathy remains to be studied. A 44-year old man with paraparesis after electrical injury wasdiagnosed as electrical injury induced- myelopathy by normal spine MRI and somatosensory evoked potential showingcentral conduction abnormality. It implicates that the presumed mechanism of the myelopathy prefers the electroporationor electroconformational protein denaturation to the joule heating. |
| Key words:
electrical, myelopathy, pathophysiology |
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