THE NECK-TONGUE SYNDROME - ATLOIDO-AXOID OSTEOARTHRITIS CAUSED BY TUBERCULOSIS

The neck-tongue syndrome involves paroxystic pain in the nape of neck associated with sensitive disorders of the ipsilateral hemitongue aggr avated by movements of the nape of neck, If is attributed to relating fibers of proprioceptive origin which pass through the great nervus hy poglossus from the second cervical stria, The lingual pseudoathetosis is also reported to a proprioceptive deafferentation of the tongue. In most of cases, no etiology has been found, We report a case of neck-t ongue syndrome with pseudoathetosis, related to an afloaxoid osteoarth ritis of tuberculous origin.