Dr. Steve Dankle,
I am a 51 year old white male that has been told that I have focal cervical dystonia with abnormal eye tracking, and head treamors. in conjunction with this I have been told by any onocologist that in both arm pit regions lymph nodes are enlarged. He ecommended removal of these nodes to determine if s possible lymphoma exists. Allso many years ago I had a STD called Condyloma, could this past problem with this STD be related to the conditions that are now present? any information you could give me would be greatly appereciated.
Respectfully
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Your primary question seems to be whether a prior STD could cause the symptoms you describe. I am not aware of any association between STD's and cervical dystonia. In fact, cervical dystonia is a poorly understood condition that is thought to be due to a disorder in the brain stem of the central nervous system that results in disorderly or chaotic neural discharges in the motor endplate of a muscle thereby causing involuntary muscular movement. The current treatment of choice is injection of the affected muscle with botulinim toxin type A. I am also not aware of any association between lymphoma and cervical dystonia. It is possible that the lymph node enlargement and the dystonia are unrelated. I would concur with the previous recommendation to consider a biopsy.
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Steve Dankle, MD
Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Milwaukee, Wis
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