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Cerebellar ataxia is a form of ataxia originating in the cerebellum.[1]
A rare disease of the rhombencephalon, "rhombencephalosynapsis" is characterized by a missing vermis resulting in a fused cerebellum. Patients generally present with cerebellar ataxia.
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Romberg's test can be used to distinguish cerebellar ataxia from other forms of ataxia.
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Symptoms and signs: nervous and musculoskeletal systems (R25–R29, 781.0, 781.2–9) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Primarily nervous system |
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| Primarily muscular |
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| Primarily skeletal |
Rachitic rosary · Clubbing | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Primarily joint |
Joint locking | ||||||||||||||||||||
Lesions of spinal cord and brain | |||||||||||
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| Spinal cord/ vascular myelopathy |
sensory: Sensory ataxia • Tabes dorsalis
motor: Motor neurone disease | ||||||||||
| Brainstem |
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| Cerebellum |
lateral (Dysmetria •
Dysdiadochokinesia •
Intention tremor) •
medial (Cerebellar ataxia) | ||||||||||
| Basal ganglia | |||||||||||
| Cortex |
ACA syndrome • MCA syndrome • PCA syndrome | ||||||||||
| Thalamus | |||||||||||
| Other |
Subclavian steal syndrome • Upper motor neurone lesion (Clasp-knife response) • Lower motor neurone lesion | ||||||||||
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