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Exploratory structural assessment in craniocervical dystonia: Global and differential analyses. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2017
Our goal was to investigate the cortical thickness and subcortical volume in subjects with craniocervical dystonia and its subgroups.We studied 49 subjects, 17 with cervical dystonia, 18 with blepharospasm or oromandibular dystonia, and 79 healthy ...
Larissa Vilany   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Managing Dystonia in Partington Syndrome

open access: yesMovement Disorders Clinical Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Bilateral focal hand dystonia is an almost pathognomonic sign of Partington syndrome, frequently accompanied by intellectual disability and oromotor dyspraxia. However, a few studies have focused on the treatment of this focal dystonia, making patient management uncertain.
Emilie Pichon   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Preseptal and Pretarsal Botulinum Toxin Injection in Hemifacial Spasm and Blepharospasm: A 10-Year Comparative Study

open access: yesTherapeutics and Clinical Risk Management, 2023
Chutithep Teekaput,1,2 Kanokkarn Teekaput,1 Kitti Thiankhaw1,2 1Division of Neurology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, 50200, Thailand; 2The Northern Neuroscience Centre, Faculty of Medicine ...
Teekaput C, Teekaput K, Thiankhaw K
doaj  

Isolated focal dystonia phenotypes are associated with distinct patterns of altered microstructure

open access: yesNeuroImage: Clinical, 2018
Objective: Isolated adult-onset focal dystonia is considered a network disorder with disturbances to the motor basal ganglia and cerebellar circuits playing a pathophysiological role, but why specific body regions become affected remains unknown.
Brian D. Berman   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Functional blindness: Blepharospasm with apraxia of eyelid opening

open access: yesKerala Journal of Ophthalmology, 2020
Purpose: The purpose was to evaluate the effectiveness of protractor myectomy surgery in patients with severe blepharospasm whose daily life is severely impaired.
Titap Yazicioglu
doaj   +1 more source

Dermatology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Dermatology continues to develop at a steady pace. In the past few years there have been exciting advances in our understanding of skin structure and function in health and disease and progress in genetics, epidemiology, immunology, pharmacology and ...
Boffa, Michael J.
core   +1 more source

Segmental and Multifocal Isolated Dystonias: Similarities and Differences

open access: yesMovement Disorders Clinical Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Whether the traditional distinction between segmental and multifocal dystonia is clinically or scientifically useful remains unclear. Objective To evaluate whether idiopathic isolated adult‐onset segmental and multifocal dystonia can be differentiated based on clinical features other than the contiguity of affected body regions ...
Hyder A. Jinnah   +38 more
wiley   +1 more source

Blepharospasm with Anterocollis: A Distinctive Subphenotype of Segmental Craniocervical Dystonia

open access: yesTremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements, 2011
Background:  Dystonia of the eyelids often spreads to affect other muscles in the craniocervical region.  Certain blepharospasm-plus subphenotypes may be clinically unique.Methods: Seven subjects with the subphenotype of late-onset ...
Olga Waln, Mark S. LeDoux
doaj   +1 more source

Surgical Aspect of Blepharospasm Treatment: a Case Report

open access: yesActa Clinica Croatica, 2020
Blepharospasm is an idiopathic condition characterized by involuntary eyelid closure mainly caused by bilateral tonic-clonic contractions of the orbicularis oculi muscle.
Kristijan Dinjar   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Long-term efficacy of botulinum toxin A for treatment of blepharospasm,hemifacial spasm, and spastic entropion: a multicentre study using two drug-dose escalation indexes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
PURPOSE: To investigate the long-term effectiveness and safety of botulinum neurotoxin A (BoNT-A) treatment in patients with blepharospasm (BEB), hemifacial spasm (HFS), and entropion (EN) and to use for the first time two modified indexes, 'botulin ...
A Berardelli   +67 more
core   +1 more source

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