Apraxia of eyelid opening secondary to right frontal infarction.
Apraxia of eyelid opening is the incapacity of voluntarily eyelid opening in the absence of motor dysfunction or blepharospasm. It has mostly been described in extrapyramidal diseases and only very rarely in cortical lesions. We report a right-handed patient with a right frontal infarction exhibiting eyelid opening apraxia.
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Department of Neurology, Heilig Hart Ziekenhuis, Leuven, Belgium.
Janssens
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Vanhooren
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D000368:Aged; D001072:Apraxias / Q000209:etiology*; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005141:Eyelid Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000098:blood supply*; D006801:Humans; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed