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Familial hemifacial spasm

✍ Scribed by Dr. Andrzej Friedman; Zygmunt Jamrozik; Jacek Bojakowski

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1989
Tongue: English
Weight: 297 KB
Volume: 4
Category: Article
ISSN: 0885-3185
DOI: 10.1002/mds.870040303

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✦ Synopsis

We present a family in which hemifacial spasm involving in all cases the left side of the face occurred in five persons in three generations. Blink reflexes recorded in two cases demonstrated an unexpected R1 component on the affected side during stimulation of the contralateral side.

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