Katz Bradley J, Burroughs John R, Anderson Richard L, Bownds Shannon, McCann John D
John A. Moran Eye Center, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, Utah 84132, USA.
Mov Disord. 2007 Jan 15;22(2):231-4. doi: 10.1002/mds.21221.
We present a patient with a facial movement disorder that has characteristics of both blepharospasm and bilateral asynchronous hemifacial spasm. Because of the increased incidence of blepharospasm in patients with hemifacial spasm, our patient's clinical presentation is probably not a chance occurrence, but rather a manifestation of some predisposition for these two movement disorders. This unusual constellation of signs and symptoms challenges the current diagnostic criteria and suggests that some of these facial movement disorders may lie on a spectrum, rather than represent distinct entities.
我们报告了一名患有面部运动障碍的患者,其具有眼睑痉挛和双侧异步半面痉挛的特征。由于半面痉挛患者中眼睑痉挛的发病率增加,我们患者的临床表现可能并非偶然发生,而是这两种运动障碍某种易感性的表现。这种不寻常的体征和症状组合对当前的诊断标准提出了挑战,并表明这些面部运动障碍中的一些可能处于一个连续体上,而不是代表不同的实体。