Hemifacial Spasm

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Identifier 1-18
Title Hemifacial Spasm
Creator Kathleen B. Digre, MD
Contributors Daniel M. Jacobson, MD (1956-2003)
Affiliation (KBD) Professor of Neurology and Ophthalmology, Director of Neuro-Ophthalmology, John A. Moran Eye Center, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah; (DMJ) Neuro-Ophthalmologist, Marshfield Clinic, University Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa
Subject Hemifacial Spasm
Description Example of patients with hemifacial spasm. First patient has a sequela of Bell's palsy, and is seen to have mainly clonic movements around the eye, with occasional tonic movements around the mouth. Second patient has a cerebellopontine angle epidurmoid tumor, and is seen to have movements around the obicularis muscles and mentalis. Discussion of disorder as often idiopathic, but that one should nonetheless suspect compression of the seventh nerve due to a tumor or dolichoectatic basilar artery, or else a sequela of trauma, or Bell's palsy.
Date 1986
Language eng
Format video/mp4
Type Image/MovingImage
Source Original Format: VHS Videotape; Play length: 1:46; QT CD File Size: 26.2MB; Real CD File Size: 14.8MB; WMV CD File Size: 19.5MB
Collection Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library - The Moran Eye Center Neuro-Ophthalmology Collection: https://novel.utah.edu/Moran/
Publisher North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society
Holding Institution Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah, 10 N 1900 E SLC, UT 84112-5890
Rights Management Copyright 1986. For further information regarding the rights to this collection, please visit: https://NOVEL.utah.edu/about/copyright
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Setname ehsl_novel_jmec
ID 180324
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s68p8xsd
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