Migration of the acupuncture needles into the cervical spinal cord a case report.

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We have recently experienced one rare case of the cord symptom caused by acupuncture needles having migrated into the cervical spinal cord. The patient was a 61-year-old woman with her main complaints of numbness and pain in the left upper limb and the motor paresis in the left upper and lower limbs. As her history, she had occasionally had back pain since 1965 and received acupuncture treatments in 1973, with no apparent discomfort symptome thererafter for about two years until December, 1975, when she began to feel numbness and acute pain in the left upper limb. She has developed neurological symptoms in her left foot since January, 1976. X-ray examinations revealed the presence of many acupuncture needles around the cervical spine and cervical CT scanning confirmed the migration of the needles into the cervical spinal cord.
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