title: [Light-and electron microscopic appearances of the orbicularis oculi muscle in patients with chronic progressive ocular muscular dystrophy and in normal persons (author's transl)].
abstract: In 8 patients with chronic progressive ocular muscular dystrophy, of whom some showed a weakness of lid closure, and in 3 normal persons (aged 62 to 69 years) biopsies of the orbicularis oculi muscle were investigated with the light- and electron microscopes. We tried to find out if the histopathological investigation alone of the orbicularis oculi muscle can establish the diagnosis of ocular muscular dystrophy or not. Both groups of investigated persons showed myopathic changes in the orbicularis oculi muscle. These changes were explained as followings of catabiosis (so called "secondary myopathic reaction") in the normal persons. The changes of the patients with myopathies, however, were explained as primarily myopathic, especially with regard to the anomalies of structure, and the pathological inclusions of the mitochondria. The findings showed that there occurred similar histopathological phenomena seen by light microscope in both groups of investigated persons; the muscle cell changes of the myopathy patients, however, were more prominent in the examination of the ultrastructure.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005152:Facial Muscles / Q000473:pathology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008931:Mitochondria, Muscle / Q000648:ultrastructure; D009136:Muscular Dystrophies / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D009210:Myofibrils / Q000648:ultrastructure; D009801:Oculomotor Muscles
vernacular_title: Licht-und elektronenmikroskopische Befunde des M. orbicularis oculi bei chronisch progressiver okulärer Muskeldystrophie und bei Normalpersonen.