Facial Weakness, Otalgia, and Hemifacial Spasm
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Facial Weakness, Otalgia, and Hemifacial Spasm: A Novel Neurological Syndrome in a Case-Series of 3 Patients With Rheumatic Disease
Bell palsy occurs in different rheumatic diseases, causes hemifacial weakness, and targets the motor branch of the 7th cranial nerve. Severe, persistent, and refractory otalgia having features of neuropathic pain (ie, burning and allodynic) does not characteristically occur with Bell palsy. Whereas aberrant regeneration of the 7th cranial nerve occurring after a Bell palsy may lead to a variety...
متن کاملHemifacial spasm and involuntary facial movements.
Hemifacial spasm (HFS) is characterized by tonic and clonic contractions of the muscles innervated by the ipsilateral facial nerve. It is important to distinguish this from other causes of facial spasms, such as psychogenic facial spasm, facial tic, facial myokymia, blepharospasm, and tardive dyskinesia. Magnetic resonance imaging and angiography studies frequently demonstrate vascular compress...
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Forty-six patients with typical hemifacial spasm had CT. Thirty-eight (83%) were abnormal, including two with surgically documented tumors. Thirty-six had a characteristic dolichoectatic vertebrobasilar artery, with the convexity pointing to the side of the spasm in 92% of the scans. This study suggests that CT is worthwhile procedure in the evaluation of hemifacial spasm and that dolichoectati...
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a ) Primary hemifacial spasm, by some authors termed "cryptogenic", "idiopathic" or "autonomous". In reviewing 106 cases Ehni and Woltm a n 5 gave the fo l lowing characteristics of this group: (1) the spasms are of an intermittent, twitching nature, ( 2 ) the eyel ids on the ipsilateral side are almost always involved, ( 3 ) the spasms are usually unilateral and when bilateral they are not syn...
متن کاملElectrophysiologic Investigation During Facial Motor Neuron Suppression in Patients With Hemifacial Spasm: Possible Pathophysiology of Hemifacial Spasm: A Pilot Study
OBJECTIVE To evaluate the pathophysiological mechanism of hemifacial spasm (HFS), we performed electrophysiological examinations, such as supraorbital nerve stimulation with orbicularis oris muscle recording and lateral spread tests, after suppressing the patient's central nervous system by administering intravenous diazepam. METHODS Six patients with HFS were recruited. Supraorbital nerve st...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Medicine
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0025-7974
DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000001445