Eyelid "apraxia" in patients with motor neuron disease

K Abe; H Fujimura; C Tatsumi; K Toyooka; S Yorifuji; T Yanagihara

doi:10.1136/jnnp.59.6.629

Eyelid "apraxia" in patients with motor neuron disease

J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 1995 Dec;59(6):629-32. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.59.6.629.

Authors

K Abe¹, H Fujimura, C Tatsumi, K Toyooka, S Yorifuji, T Yanagihara

Affiliation

¹ Department of Neurology, Osaka University Medical School, Japan.

Abstract

Three patients with motor neuron disease had eyelid "apraxia" with impaired voluntary but preserved involuntary eyelid movements. Attempts were made to localise the lesions responsible with neuroimaging and neuropathological examination.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Apraxias / etiology*
Electromyography
Eyelid Diseases / etiology*
Fatal Outcome
Female
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Middle Aged
Motor Neuron Disease / complications*
Motor Neuron Disease / diagnosis
Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon