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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2019-01-01
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| Series: | NeuroImage: Clinical |
| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213158219303456 |