Clinical Similarities in Cervical Dystonia Patients With and Without a History of Painful Trauma
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Why dystonia, generalized or focal, occurs is unknown. Increasing evidence suggests that generalized dystonia has a strong genetic component. Further, that in families with generalized dystonia, the rate of focal dystonia in other family members is increased.1 My own observations of the reverse; that is, families with focal dystonia having members with generalized dystonia have failed to yield such a reverse association, at least by history.2 With respect to focal dystonia, Waddy, et al3 observed a high frequency of focal dystonic signs in family members of patients with focal dystonia, reinforcing a genetic etiology for focal dystonia.
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تاریخ انتشار 2001