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Familial hemifacial spasm and determinants of late onset.
Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology - 1 Feb 2010
Lagalla Giovanni, Logullo Francesco, Di Bella Paolo, Haghighipour Ramazan, Provinciali Leandro
Abstract excerpt
The role of hypertension in the late onset of hemifacial spasm (HFS) is evaluated in a family, spanning four generations. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) revealed a variable anatomical relationship between nervous and vascular structures in the symptomatic cerebello-pontine angle. In one case, showing neurovascular conflict (NVC), microvascular surgical decompression was...
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