A patient was treated for mantle cell Hodgkin lymphoma with radiation therapy. After 6 months he develops an electric shock-like pain along the spine on flexing his neck. What is the diagnosis?
Disease Features Cervical Ahritis Presents with stiffness in neck muscles and reduced neck movements Lhermite Sign -Seen in cervical spinal cord pathology -When neck flexion produces an unpleasant electric shock sensation radiating down the extremities Uthoff Sign -Multiple sclerosis -Worsening of symptoms like fatigue, optic neuritis with an increase in body temperature. Spinal cord compression Presents with deficits like paraplegia, bladder and bowel involvement
Cervical ahritis
Cervical spinal cord pathology
Multiple sclerosis
Spinal cord compression
CNS