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Reliability and usability of telemedicine evaluations for facial dystonia [PDF]
iScience, 2023 Summary: This study investigated telemedicine reliability and usability in evaluating facial dystonia grading and treatment complications. Eighty-two telemedicine recordings from 43 adults with blepharospasm (12, 28%) and hemifacial spasm (31, 72%) were ...
Punnaka Pongpanich +5 more
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A plastic surgery approach to Meige syndrome: Botulinum toxin for rebalancing facial dystonia and aesthetics – A case report [PDF]
JPRAS OpenMeige syndrome is a rare segmental dystonia characterized by blepharospasm and oromandibular dystonia, often leading to significant functional and aesthetic impairment.
Xiao Long
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Chewing-induced facial dystonia: a rare presentation of task-specific dystonia. [PDF]
BMJ Case Rep, 2017 This case is an addition to scarce literature available for a rare condition, chewing-induced task-specific dystonia. The patient was a 63-year-old woman who presented with a 4-year history of progressive difficulty in eating food only during chewing associated with abnormal facial grimaces without any difficulty in drinking, swallowing, speaking or ...
Sharma C +3 more
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Levodopa-Induced Facial Dystonia in a Case of Progressive Supranuclear Palsy [PDF]
Journal of Movement Disorders, 2012 Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) is frequently misdiagnosed as other Parkinsonism because of clinical heterogeneity of PSP. We present here a case of a 67-year-old male patient with frontotemporal dementia-like cognitive impairment including language
Eun Joo Chung, Sang Jin Kim
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Parkinsonism and Related Disorders, 2014 Tremor of the upper/middle part of the face, including the perinasal region and the forehead has been very rarely described in some patients with Parkinson's disease or Essential Tremor. It has not yet been reported in patients with idiopathic dystonia.We describe here a series of 8 patients with common forms of idiopathic focal/segmental dystonia with
Roberto Erro +2 more
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Long-term outcome of flexible onabotulinum toxin A treatment in facial dystonia. [PDF]
Eye (Lond), 2019 The purpose of this study was to assess the long-term outcome of onabotulinum used to treat facial dystonia and compare a flexible and fixed treatment regimen.This was a retrospective comparative study looking at benign essential blepharospasm (BEB), hemifacial spasm (HFS) and aberrant facial nerve regeneration synkinesis (AFR) treatment with ...
Bladen JC +5 more
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Reviving Hope: Overcoming Deep Brain Stimulation Failure With Partial Cranial Nerve Radiofrequency Ablation in Primary Meige Syndrome [PDF]
Brain and BehaviorIntroduction Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a standard treatment for refractory primary Meige syndrome (PMS), yet 30%–50% of patients experience suboptimal outcomes. Management strategies for these “DBS failures” remain undefined.
Xue Li +6 more
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Cervico-facial dystonia as depicted in sculpture before its scientific description
Revue Neurologique, 2019 The authors describe a sculpture from Daumier, called "Le Hargneux" (The peevish one), whose physiognomic study evokes hitherto unrecognized cranial-cervical dystonia. It is probably the first representation of dystonia in sculpture, before its scientific identification by Horatio Wood, in 1887.
François Sellal
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Clinical and Imaging Profile of Patients with Joubert Syndrome [PDF]
Journal of Movement Disorders, 2021 Objective Joubert syndrome (JS) is a rare syndrome characterized by ataxia and the molar tooth sign (MTS) on imaging. The present study aims to explore the clinical and radiological features in a cohort of patients with JS.
Bharath Kumar Surisetti +6 more
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Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022 BackgroundMeige’ s syndrome, a rare form of dystonia, lacks effective treatment. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of CT-guided percutaneous extracranial radiofrequency ablation of the facial and/or trigeminal nerves in the treatment
Bing Huang +5 more
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