✦ LIBER ✦
Episodic focal lingual dystonic spasms
✍ Scribed by Mark Edwards; Geoffrey Schott; Kailash Bhatia
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 274 KB
- Volume
- 18
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-3185
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
We present the clinical history of a woman with idiopathic episodic focal lingual dystonic spasms. Although dystonic spasms of the tongue have been reported as a primary persistent phenomenon and as a feature of secondary dystonias, primary episodic lingual dystonias are rare, tend to be unilateral, and in contrast to most other paroxysmal movement disorders, do not appear responsive to anti‐epileptic drugs. © 2003 Movement Disorder Society