Cargando…
Jaw Clonus: A Rhythmic Oscillatory Movement, but Not Tremor
BACKGROUND: Jaw clonus is rhythmic, oscillatory contraction of jaw muscles induced by stretch and is caused by lesions of the descending motor neurons in the corticopontine tracts. PHENOMENOLOGY SHOWN: We illustrate jaw clonus elicited with jaw activation and upon testing of the jaw jerk in a patien...
Autores principales: | Williams, Laura, Ryan, Marie, Kilbride, Ronan, Llamas-Osorio, Yudy |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
Ubiquity Press
2020
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7528660/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33042635 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/tohm.538 |
Ejemplares similares
-
Ankle clonus
por: Fareedy, Shoaib Bilal, et al.
Publicado: (2015) -
Ocular clonus
por: Yoshidome, Ai, et al.
Publicado: (2023) -
Jaw Tremor Resulting in Broken Teeth: On the Essential Tremor Spectrum
por: Hernandez, Nora C., et al.
Publicado: (2015) -
Re-Emergent Tremor of Parkinson’s Disease Masquerading as Essential Tremor
por: Morgan, Sarah, et al.
Publicado: (2016) -
Primary Writing Tremor
por: Vives‐Rodriguez, Ana, et al.
Publicado: (2018)