Continous Idiopathic Facial Myokymia Succesfully Treated with Botulinum Toxin
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Facial myokymia.
The facial musculature may be the site of a great variety of involuntary movements, often of doubtful nature and obscure causation. One form was sharply delineated both by clinical description and probable pathogenesis by Andermann, Cosgrove, LloydSmith, Gloor, and McNaughton (1961). These authors drew attention to the condition of facial myokymia of which they described four cases of their own...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurology & Stroke
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2373-6410
DOI: 10.15406/jnsk.2017.06.00200