{"title":"53-year-old Woman with Opsoclonus-Myoclonus Syndrome.","authors":"Taylor Stephens, Bryan Imhoff, Janak Patel","doi":"10.5811/cpcem.53141","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Case presentation: </strong>We present the case of a 53-year-old female with darting eye movements and difficulty walking who was found to have opsoclonus-myoclonus syndrome only after multiple presentations to emergency departments over five days.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>Adult-onset opsoclonus-myoclonus syndrome is a rare central nervous system disease typically associated with paraneoplastic or idiopathic etiologies. With non-specific symptom presentation, this condition is commonly misdiagnosed in adults, leading to diagnostic delays and long-term motor and cognitive sequelae.</p>","PeriodicalId":31975,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine","volume":"10 2","pages":"217-218"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13135425/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.53141","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Nursing","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Case presentation: We present the case of a 53-year-old female with darting eye movements and difficulty walking who was found to have opsoclonus-myoclonus syndrome only after multiple presentations to emergency departments over five days.
Discussion: Adult-onset opsoclonus-myoclonus syndrome is a rare central nervous system disease typically associated with paraneoplastic or idiopathic etiologies. With non-specific symptom presentation, this condition is commonly misdiagnosed in adults, leading to diagnostic delays and long-term motor and cognitive sequelae.