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Pure dysarthria, isolated facial paresis, or dysarthria-facial paresis syndrome.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Pure dysarthria, isolated supranuclear facial paresis, and their combination without somatic motor dysfunction are rarely encountered clinical syndromes and have not yet been clearly characterized. METHODS Thirteen patients (9 men, 4 women; aged 33 to 72 [mean, 56] years) with unilateral strokes who developed dysarthria with or without facial paresis but without somatic...

Facial diplegia and vestibular neuritis secondary to HIV seroconversion syndrome.

CASE REPORT The patient is a 60-year-old heterosexual male with a past medical history of morbid obesity and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He had been in his usual state of health until approximately four weeks prior to admission, when he developed low grade fever, rhinorrhea, sore throat and diffuse arthromyalgias. Fever resolved promptly after treatment with amoxycillin and clavulani...

Pure dysarthria and dysarthria-facial paresis syndrome due to internal capsule and/or corona radiata infarction

BACKGROUND Pure dysarthria (PD) and dysarthria-facial paresis syndrome (DFP) mainly result from lenticulostriate artery territory infarction. PD and DFP are rare clinical entities, often grouped without distinction. The purpose of this study was to examine clinical and radiographic differences between PD and DFP due to unilateral internal capsule and/or corona radiata infarction. METHODS Usin...

Nuclear agenesis: Möbius' syndrome: the congenital facial diplegia syndrome.

Thus Harlan (1881) described the appearance of a patient with bilateral congenital facial and external rectus paralysis. Chisholm's account (1882) was equally clear. The collation of cases of congenital facial palsy combined with other cranial muscle weakness by Mobius (1892) led to more general recognition of nuclear degeneration (as he termed it), or agenesis, and to eponymous fame. More rece...

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