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ArticleNeurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology2021

A novel task-specific dystonia type: Hemifacial spasm in a photographer.

Odysseas Kargiotis, Aliki Geka, Athanasios Tsivgoulis, Dimitra Veltsista, Georgia Xiromerisiou, Georgios Tsivgoulis

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Article in Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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6 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Odysseas KargiotisDepartment of Neurology, Metropolitan Hospital, Piraeus, Greece. kargiody@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8317-6428
Aliki GekaDepartment of Opthalmology, Olympion Medical Center, Patras, Greece.
Athanasios TsivgoulisSecond Department of Neurology, National & Kapodistiran University of Athens, School of Medicine, "Attikon" University Hospital, Athens, Greece.
Dimitra VeltsistaDepartment of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of Patras, Patras, Greece.
Georgia XiromerisiouDepartment of Neurology, University Hospital of Larissa, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece.
Georgios TsivgoulisSecond Department of Neurology, National & Kapodistiran University of Athens, School of Medicine, "Attikon" University Hospital, Athens, Greece.
Metropolitan Hospital · GRNational and Kapodistrian University of Athens · GRUniversity of Patras · GRUniversity of Tennessee Health Science Center · USUniversity of Thessaly · GR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 67-year-old male photographer who used traditional cameras that necessitated monocular focusing developed intermittent blepharospasms, evident only during and shortly after the voluntary contraction of the left eyelids while using the camera, a form of a task-specific blepharospasm. The spasms gradually progressed to involve the entire hemiface resulting in a task-specific hemifacial spasm that eventually evolved into a persistent hemifacial spasm. Our case report highlights the fact that focal dystonia may also develop in the facial muscles following chronic and repetitive muscle contractions, such as those performed by an older photographer who used traditional cameras that necessitated monocular focusing. To our knowledge, hemifacial spasm has not yet been recognized as a form of focal, task-specific dystonia. Moreover, occupational, focal dystonia has not been described in photographers.

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BlepharospasmDystonic DisordersHemifacial SpasmAgedFacial MusclesHumansMaleBotulinum toxinHemifacial spasmOccupational dystoniaTask-specific dystonia

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