Focal atrophy of the unilateral masticatory muscles caused by pure trigeminal motor neuropathy: case report

Patients with unknown clinical or radiological asymmetry in the face structures combined with atrophy and weakness of the masticatory muscles should be comprehensively examined clinically and with MRI, neurophysiological measurements, and serologically. Malignant lesions or benign idiopathic unilate...

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Autores principales: Kämppi, Antti, Kämppi, Leena, Kemppainen, Pentti, Kanerva, Mari, Toppila, Jussi, Auranen, Mari
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Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5930203/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29744092
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1495
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author Kämppi, Antti
Kämppi, Leena
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description Patients with unknown clinical or radiological asymmetry in the face structures combined with atrophy and weakness of the masticatory muscles should be comprehensively examined clinically and with MRI, neurophysiological measurements, and serologically. Malignant lesions or benign idiopathic unilateral trigeminal motor neuropathy should be considered as an etiological explanation for the asymmetry.
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spelling pubmed-59302032018-05-09 Focal atrophy of the unilateral masticatory muscles caused by pure trigeminal motor neuropathy: case report Kämppi, Antti Kämppi, Leena Kemppainen, Pentti Kanerva, Mari Toppila, Jussi Auranen, Mari Clin Case Rep Case Reports Patients with unknown clinical or radiological asymmetry in the face structures combined with atrophy and weakness of the masticatory muscles should be comprehensively examined clinically and with MRI, neurophysiological measurements, and serologically. Malignant lesions or benign idiopathic unilateral trigeminal motor neuropathy should be considered as an etiological explanation for the asymmetry. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018-03-30 /pmc/articles/PMC5930203/ /pubmed/29744092 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1495 Text en © 2018 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Focal atrophy of the unilateral masticatory muscles caused by pure trigeminal motor neuropathy: case report
title Focal atrophy of the unilateral masticatory muscles caused by pure trigeminal motor neuropathy: case report
title_full Focal atrophy of the unilateral masticatory muscles caused by pure trigeminal motor neuropathy: case report
title_fullStr Focal atrophy of the unilateral masticatory muscles caused by pure trigeminal motor neuropathy: case report
title_full_unstemmed Focal atrophy of the unilateral masticatory muscles caused by pure trigeminal motor neuropathy: case report
title_short Focal atrophy of the unilateral masticatory muscles caused by pure trigeminal motor neuropathy: case report
title_sort focal atrophy of the unilateral masticatory muscles caused by pure trigeminal motor neuropathy: case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5930203/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1495
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