Clinical assessment of patients with primary and postparalytic hemifacial spasm: a retrospective study Análise clínica de pacientes com espasmo hemifacial primário e pós-paralítico: estudo retrospectivo

OBJECTIVE: To compared the clinical features of 373 patients with primary and postparalytic hemifacial spasm (HFS). METHOD: Data analyzed were gender, ethnicity, age at symptom onset, disease duration, affected side, distribution of facial spasm at onset, hypertension, family history of HFS, previou...

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Main Authors: Andre Carvalho Felicio, Clecio de Oliveira Godeiro-Junior, Vanderci Borges, Sonia Maria de Azevedo Silva, Henrique Ballalai Ferraz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Academia Brasileira de Neurologia (ABNEURO) 2007-09-01
Series:Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2007000500009