(DGC) Former Director of Ophthalmology, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Subject
Myopathic; Myotonic Atrophy
Description
Presenting Symptom: inability to relax the hand grip - symptom common to all forms of myotonia. 12/30/77: 34 year old man with myotonia dystrophia showing white opacities in the posterior cortex and a congenital lamellar type pf opacity around the fetal nucleus of the lens. Noteworthy in the muscular system is a marked weakness of the face so that he is unable to furrow his forehead and there is a marked weakness of the orbicular despite the fact that he has a slight amount of ptosis. There is also marked myotonia of his grip. Disease/ Diagnosis: Myotonia
