Painful tic convulsif syndrome due to vertebrobasilar dolichoectasia
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Painful tic convulsif.
Painful tic convulsif is a syndrome restricted to paroxysmal dysfunction of the fifth and seventh cranial nerves. It occurs primarily in women over the age of 50 years and is usually associated with an ectatic vertebrobasilar artery--less frequently an arteriovenous malformation or cholesteatoma--which compresses the trigeminal and facial nerve roots in the posterior fossa. In rare instances th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0976-3147,0976-3155
DOI: 10.4103/0976-3147.80111