Table 1.
Reported Cases of Mirror Movements Associated with Cervical Neural Tube Defects
| Authors, year | Number of cases | Gender | Age (years) |
Age of MM onset |
Clinical features | Neural tube defect nature |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forget et al., 1986 | 1 | M | _ | Adulthood (25 years) |
MM, deep sensation impairment |
Cervicodorsal meningocele |
| Odabasi et al., 1998 | 1 | M | _ | Childhood | MM | Cervical meningocele, anomaly at the posterior to the cervical spinal cord-medulla junction |
| Erdincler et al., 2002 | 1 | F | 18 | Childhood | MM, broad-based unsteady gait, pyramidal syndrome | Cervical meningocele, spinal cord tethering |
| Erol et al., 2004 | 1 | F | 14 | Childhood | MM, brisk tendon reflexes, recurrent meningitis | Cervical meningocele and dermoid sinus tract |
| Andrabi et al., 2008 | 1 | M | 3 | Childhood | MM | Cervical myelomeningocele |
| Our case | 1 | M | 11 | Childhood (1 year) |
MM, pyramidal syndrome, right trapezium hypotrophy | Cervical myelomeningocele |
MM: mirror movements; M: male, F: female