DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
Numbness (both hands)
Minamata disease
Minamata disease, sometimes referred to as Chisso-Minamata disease, is a neurological syndrome caused by severe mercury poisoning. Symptoms include ataxia, numbness in the hands and feet, general muscle weakness, narrowing of the field of vision and damage to hearing and speech. In extreme cases, insanity, paralysis, coma and death follow within weeks of the onset of symptoms. A congenital form of the disease can also affect fetuses in the womb. Minamata disease was first discovered in Minamata city in Kumamoto prefecture, Japan in 1956. It was caused by the release of methylmercury in the industrial wastewater from the Chisso Corporation's chemical factory, which continued from 1932 to 1968...
Numbness (both hands) - List of case studies
- Spinal pathology
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spine. He complains of low back pain, cramping and numbness in his thigh muscles, radiating left leg pain to his toes, as well as unsteady gait. He experiences numbness in his shoulders, arms and hands that gets worse over the day. He had ...
- List of Symptoms
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in standing balance Ambulation limitations And numbness in thigh muscles And wear shoes Anemia Anesthesia ... Contraction and loss of peripheral vision (both eyes) Convulsive events Cough Cramps Crossed eyes ...
- Spinal pathology – additional opinion
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spine. He complains of low back pain, cramping and numbness in his thigh muscles, radiating left leg pain to his toes, as well as unsteady gait. He experiences numbness in his shoulders, arms and hands that gets worse over the day. He had ...
- Axonal and Demyelinative Sensorimotor Neuropathy
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a sensation of cold and stinging in the feet; and numbness in the hands, especially at night. Nerve conduction and EMG ... sensation and stinging of feet at night . Feels numbness in hands at night . During walking feels difficulty and ... unusual), paraneoplastic disease and HIV infection (both of which have been excluded). Vasculitic neuropathy may be quite ...
- Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP)_1
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43-year-old male experienced numbness in both hands. An EMG showed conduction block both on the ulnar and ... (distal upper limbs), hand paresthesias, numbness (both hands), sensory loss, reduction of hand motility. Related ...