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SUBMITTER: Park JY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5451013 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Park Jun Young JY Yang Hee Kyung HK Hwang Jeong-Min JM
PloS one 20170531 5
Twenty-six patients with ptosis related to Myasthenia gravis (MG) and 38 controls with ptosis other than MG were included. All patients were tested with the ice test 2 times on separate days in the afternoon. The margin reflex distance (MRD) was measured before and immediately after 2-minute application of ice on the eyelids. The ice test was judged positive if there was an improvement of at least 2.0 mm of MRD after the ice test. Among the patients with negative test results, 'equivocal' was de ...[more]