Trigeminal neuropathy in connective tissue disease
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[Trigeminal neuropathy and connective tissue diseases].
Connective tissue diseases are a rare and poorly understood etiology of trigeminal neuropathy. In a retrospective multicentric study covering 12 years. 12 cases were identified in the archives of the Departments of Neurology, Rheumatology and Internal Medicine: 4 were associated with progressive systemic sclerosis. 4 with mixed connective tissue diseases and 4 with Sjögren's syndrome. In 9 of t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Japanese Journal of Clinical Immunology
سال: 1987
ISSN: 0911-4300,1349-7413
DOI: 10.2177/jsci.10.71