Facial Myokymia in the Guillain-Barre Syndrome
Open Access
- 1 September 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Neurology
- Vol. 34 (9) , 576-577
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archneur.1977.00500210078016
Abstract
• Facial myokymia, a unique involuntary movement of facial muscles, is described in a patient with Guillain-Barré syndrome. Although this involuntary movement is most often described with intramedullary lesions of the brain stem, it may also appear with lesions external to the neuraxis. We review the literature and propose a more widespread distribution of potential lesions along the facial nerve pathway, which may produce facial myokymia.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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