Publikation

Unilateral tongue myokymia - A rare topodiagnostic sign of different clinical conditions

Wissenschaftlicher Artikel/Review - 29.07.2017

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PubMed
DOI

Zitation
Leupold D, Schilg-Hafer L, Felbecker A, Kim O, Tettenborn B, Hundsberger T. Unilateral tongue myokymia - A rare topodiagnostic sign of different clinical conditions. J Clin Neurosci 2017
Art
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel/Review (Englisch)
Zeitschrift
J Clin Neurosci 2017
Veröffentlichungsdatum
29.07.2017
eISSN (Online)
1532-2653
Kurzbeschreibung/Zielsetzung

Myokymia of the tongue is a very rare clinical condition and is much less common than facial or focal myokymia of the limbs. Radiation-induced delayed nerve damage is a well-known cause of myokymia, but other etiologies i.e. tumor recurrence should be considered as a differential diagnosis. We describe a case series of neurophysiologically proven unilateral tongue myokymia, which arose in two patients after radiotherapy of the neck/head and in one patient due to a space occupying meningioma of the cerebrospinal passage affecting the hypoglossal nerve. With this case series and a review of the literature we aim to raise clinical suspicion of tongue myokymia and highlight the clinical and electromyographic impact of myokymia in the diagnosis of malignancies and treatment-associated lesions of the hypoglossal nerve.