Ocular palatal tremor plus dystonia - new syndromic association.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Ocular palatal tremor typically develops after a breach in the Guillian-Mollaret triangle. We herein describe a variant of this syndrome in which dystonia is also present, hence called, here, ocular palatal tremor plus dystonia.

Methods

We assessed eye-head movements and dystonia in six patients with ocular palatal plus dystonia.

Results

Among six patients with ocular palatal tremor two had focal dystonia, three had multifocal dystonia, and one had generalized dystonia. The dystonia affected the upper extremities and neck in four patients, the lower extremities in three and the face in two. Three out of four cervical dystonia patients had head tremor. Two patients also had speech involvement. Lack of correlation between eye and head oscillations suggested th

SUBMITTER: Shaikh AG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4753074 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature