TY - JOUR
T1 - Myokymia and Facial Contraction in Brain Stem Glioma
T2 - An Electromyographic Study
AU - Tenser, Lcdr Richard B.
AU - Corbett, Lcdr James J.
PY - 1974/6
Y1 - 1974/6
N2 - Occasional patients with a brain stem glioma have continuous unilateral facial contraction and myokymia. One such a patient underwent detailed electromyographic study of the involved facial muscles. In addition, following lidocaine infiltration of the ipsilateral facial nerve at the stylomastoid foramen, the facial contraction and myokymia were eliminated. This indicates that the abnormal muscle activity was due to a process more proximal than the stylomastoid foramen and was not due to a distal lesion as has been found in myokymia of the limb muscles.
AB - Occasional patients with a brain stem glioma have continuous unilateral facial contraction and myokymia. One such a patient underwent detailed electromyographic study of the involved facial muscles. In addition, following lidocaine infiltration of the ipsilateral facial nerve at the stylomastoid foramen, the facial contraction and myokymia were eliminated. This indicates that the abnormal muscle activity was due to a process more proximal than the stylomastoid foramen and was not due to a distal lesion as has been found in myokymia of the limb muscles.
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U2 - 10.1001/archneur.1974.00490360001001
DO - 10.1001/archneur.1974.00490360001001
M3 - Article
C2 - 4827058
AN - SCOPUS:0016189708
SN - 0003-9942
VL - 30
SP - 425
EP - 427
JO - Archives of Neurology
JF - Archives of Neurology
IS - 6
ER -