Myokymia miasms
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Clinic
- Myokymia is an Peripheral Nervous system Entity, presents with involuntary, spontaneous, localized quivering of a few muscles which are insufficient to move a joint.
- One type is superior oblique myokymia.
- Myokymia is commonly used to describe an involuntary eyelid muscle contraction, typically involving the lower eyelid or less often the upper eyelid.
- Facial myokymia is a fine rippling of muscles on one side of the face and may reflect
- Underlying tumor in the brainstem (brainstem glioma),
- Loss of myelin in the brainstem (associated with MS)
- Recovery stage of Miller-Fisher syndrome
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