Volitional type of facial palsy associated with pontine ischaemia.
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Volitional type of facial palsy associated with pontine ischaemia.
A dissociation between voluntary and emotional facial innervation is described in a patient with a pure motor stroke due to a unilateral ischaemic pontine infarction. Voluntary facial innervation of the contralateral orbicularis oris muscle was affected whereas emotionally induced innervation of the same muscle was spared. This report provides evidence that fibres conveying voluntary and emotio...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0022-3050
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.58.6.732