Myokymia and facial contracture in brain stem tuberculoma. A clinicopathologic report.
The syndrome of persistent facial myokymia and spastic facial contracture is a rare sign of pontine glioma. In none of the previously published cases has this syndrome been reported in association with a nonneoplastic lesion. A patient is described in whom facial myokymia and contracture were caused by a pontine tuberculoma.
D000328:Adult; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000150:complications; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D001933:Brain Stem; D003286:Contracture / Q000209:etiology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005145:Face; D005152:Facial Muscles; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009135:Muscular Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D014375:Tuberculoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis