title: Blepharospasm with bilateral basal ganglia infarction.
abstract: Severe, involuntary, forceful closure of both eyelids, along with dystonia and rigidity, followed hypoxic encephalopathy in a young man whose computed tomographic scan showed symmetric infarcts of the corpus striatum. Symptomatic blepharospasm can result from bilateral damage to the basal ganglia.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001480:Basal Ganglia Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D001764:Blepharospasm / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D005141:Eyelid Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male