Signs and Symptoms
Symptoms include:
- opsoclonus (rapid, involuntary, multivectorial (horizontal and vertical), unpredictable, conjugate fast eye movements without intersaccadic intervals)
- myoclonus (brief, involuntary twitching of a muscle or a group of muscles)
- cerebellar ataxia, both truncal and appendicular
- aphasia (a language disorder in which there is an impairment of speech and of comprehension of speech, caused by brain damage)
- mutism (a language disorder in which a person does not speak despite evidence of speech ability in the past, often part of a larger neurological or psychiatric disorder)
- lethargy
- irritability or malaise
- drooling
- strabismus (a condition in which the eyes are not properly aligned with each other)
- vomiting
- sleep disturbances
About half of all OMS cases occur in association with neuroblastoma (a cancer of the sympathetic nervous system usually occurring in infants and children).
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