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Cranial nerve lesions and abnormal visually evoked potentials associated with the M694V mutation in familial Mediterranean fever.
Clinical rheumatology - 1 Aug 2002
Finsterer J, Stöllberger C, Shinar Y
Abstract excerpt
A 52-year-old Turkish man with familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) due to the homozygous M694V mutation in the MEFV-gene on chromosome 16p13.3, newly developed hemicrania, blurred and double vision, ptosis, ophthalmoparesis and peripheral facial nerve palsy. Except for double vision, all the other abnormalities disappeared spontaneously within 10 days after onset. Markedly prolonged latencies of the visually...
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