Myasthenia Gravis Presenting with Facial Diplegia without Ocular Muscle Involvement

Chul-Hoo Kang; Hong Jun Kim; Jung-Hwan Oh; Sa-Yoon Kang

doi:10.14253/KJCN.2015.17.1.35

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Kang, Kim, Oh, and Kang: Myasthenia Gravis Presenting with Facial Diplegia without Ocular Muscle Involvement

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Korean J Community Nutr 2015;17(1):35-37.

Published online: 18 December 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14253/KJCN.2015.17.1.35

Myasthenia Gravis Presenting with Facial Diplegia without Ocular Muscle Involvement

Chul-Hoo Kang, Hong Jun Kim, Jung-Hwan Oh, Sa-Yoon Kang

Department of Neurology, Jeju National University School of Medicine, Jeju, Korea

Address for correspondence; Sa-Yoon Kang Department of Neurology, Jeju National University School of Medicine, 15 Aran 13-gil, Jeju 690-767, Korea Tel: +82-64-754-8175 Fax: +82-64-717-1630 E-mail: neurokang@jejunu.ac.kr

Received 2 August 2014 Revised 6 January 2015 Accepted 29 May 2015

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Keywords: Acetylcholine receptor, Facial palsy, Myasthenia gravis

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Fig. 1.

The results of repetitive nerve stimulation test and facial nerve conduction study. The repetitive nerve stimulation at 2 Hz recording over the orbicularis oculi (left) and trapezius (right) muscles showed decremental response (A). Facial nerve conduction study showed normal distal latency and bilateral reduced amplitude of compound muscle action potentials (B).

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