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Glucose hypometabolism in the visual cortex proportional to disease severity in patients with essential blepharospasm()

Essential blepharospasm (EB) causes difficulty in eyelid opening because of involuntary movements of the orbicularis oculi muscle. Patients with EB have functional visual loss due to sustained eyelid closure. We examined cerebral glucose metabolism in 39 patients with EB (12 men and 27 women; mean a...

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Autores principales: Suzuki, Yukihisa, Kiyosawa, Motohiro, Wakakura, Masato, Ishii, Kenji
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6728873/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31487599
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2019.101995