Isolated facial myokymia as a presenting feature of pontine neurocysticercosis

Movement Disorders

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 135-137

  Bhatia, Rohit ^a   Desai, Soaham ^a   Garg, Ajay ^a   Padma, Madakasira V ^a   Prasad, Kameshwar ^a   Tripathi, Manjari ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Brainstem; Myokymia; Neurocysticercosis

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; CLONAZEPAM; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MYOKYMIA; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTICONVULSANTS; CARBAMAZEPINE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FACIAL NERVE DISEASES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; PONS; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 39549108502     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.21792     Document Type: Article

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