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SM Journal of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

Bilateral Blepharospasm Due to Unilateral Thalamomesencephalic Lesion

[ ISSN : 3067-9982 ]

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Received: 01-Sep-2017

Accepted: 13-Sep-2017

Published: 18-Sep-2017

Case Report | Volume 3 - Issue 2 | Article DOI :

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Afrantou T, Natsis KS*, Angelou A and Grigoriadis N

Second Department of Neurology, AHEPA University Hospital, Greece

Corresponding Author:

Natsis KS, Department of Neurology, AHEPA University Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece, Tel: +302313303247.

Keywords

s Blepharospasm; Thalamus; Diencephalus

Abstract

Blepharospasm has been rarely reported as a consequence of structural lesions of the thalamus. We present a patient with bilateral blepharospasm due to a non-vascular thalamomesencephalic lesion of the nondominant hemisphere. A disruption among internuclear pathways linking the non-dominant cerebral hemisphere, the basal ganglia, thalamus and the brainstem, is a possible pathogenic mechanism.

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Afrantou T, Natsis KS, Angelou A and Grigoriadis N. Bilateral Blepharospasm Due to Unilateral Thalamomesencephalic Lesion. SM J Neurol Disord Stroke. 2017; 3(2): 1015s3.