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Acupuncture has been practiced in the treatment of many diseases in Japan. "Okibari" is one of the procedures in acupuncture treatment: a fine stainless steel or silver needle is inserted into the subcutaneous tissue through the skin, to remain in the subcutaneous tissue. A 57-year-old pharmacist was knocked down by a motorcycle in 1971, since then moderate weakness of left extremities and stiffness of muscles have remained as sequelae. She was consequently treated with acupuncture. Many small needles were inserted permanently in the nuchal, occipital and other areas of the body ten to twelve years before she developed gradual clumsiness and dysesthesia in her right hand in 1984. When she was admitted for the first time in 1985, neurological examination revealed left Horner's syndrome and diminished deep sensation in her right extremities with pseudo-athetosis of her right hand, along with spastic paresis of left extremities and right carpal tunnel syndrome. An old needle which had strayed into left dorsal medulla was considered to be responsible for these symptoms. In 1988 loss of pain and temperature sensation in the right side of her body below the shoulder, and diminished deep sensation of left extremities were appended, and weakness of her left extremities became aggravated. Pseudo-athetosis of her right hand was seen less prominently. In plain X-ray films many needle shadows were visualized. On CT scan needle shadows could be seen also in the left dorsal medulla, right cerebellum and in the subarachnoid space of left dorsal C1-C2 level.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:[Acupuncture needles, straying in the central nervous system and presenting neurological signs and symptoms]. 227 62

This study was intended to demonstrate the neurological characteristics of idiopathic neurologic diseases of dogs and cats as a material for evaluating them as animal models for human diseases. A hundred and nineteen animals selected for this study from among outpatients with various neurological disorders presented to the Veterinary Hospital of University of Tokyo were studied mainly by the neurological examination with assistant methods of electroencephalography and electromyography. Hydrocephalus and vestibular diseases were highest in incidence in dogs, followed in order by encephalitis and epilepsy. Choleiform movements or other abnormal movements such as athetosis and hemiballism that are seen in diseases of the extrapyramidal system of man were not observed in dogs. Cerebellar degenerative disease showed the highest incidence in cats, which is believed to occur by transplacental infection of panleukopenia virus. Intervertebral disk disorders, the most common neurologic disease in the dog, usually occurred in the thoracic, unlike in man, and lumbar segments, not only causing pain but precipitating paresis or paralysis of the legs or of the trunk.
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PMID:[Idiopathic neurologic diseases in dogs and cats in Japan from the viewpoint of animal models of human disease (author's transl)]. 731 28