title: [Meige's syndrome or segmental craniocervical dystonia: terminology, history and contemporary view].
abstract: The term "Meige's syndrome" or "Breughel's syndrome" is used by specialists for the description of blepharospasm with the involuntary movements in the lower part of the face and/or masseter muscle. These eponyms "Meige's syndrome" and "Breughel's syndrome" make some mess in the terminology. The term "segmental craniocervical dystonia" joins different blepharospam-plus phenotypes and reflects contemporary perceptions about its genetic and pathophysiological community. Botulinotherapy is in fact the only way of symptomathic treatment of craniocervical dystonias.
authors.affiliation: Kazan State Medical University, Kazan, Republican clinical diagnostical center of extrapyramidal disorders and botulinotherapy, Kazan.
authors.forename: Z A
authors.initials: ZA
authors.lastname: Zalyalova
mesh_terms: D001764:Blepharospasm / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D001905:Botulinum Toxins / Q000627:therapeutic use; D020820:Dyskinesias / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D004421:Dystonia / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D006801:Humans; D008406:Masseter Muscle / Q000503:physiopathology; D008538:Meige Syndrome / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy
chemical_list: D001905:Botulinum Toxins