Objective: To investigate the neurophysiologic aspects of facial motor control in patients with sporadic Mobius syndrome defined as nonprogressive congenital facial and abducens palsy. Methods: The authors assessed 24 patients with sporadic Mobius syndrome by performing a complete clinical examination and neurophysiologic tests including facial nerve conduction studies, needle electromyography examination of facial muscles, and recording of the blink reflex and of the trigeminofacial inhibitory reflex. Results: Two distinct groups of patients were identified according to neurophysiologic testing. The first group was characterized by increased facial distal motor latencies (DMLs) and poor recruitment of small and polyphasic motor unit action potentials (MUAPs). The second group was characterized by normal facial DMLs and neuropathic MUAPs. It is hypothesized that in the first group, the disorder is due to a rhombencephalic maldevelopment with selective sparing of small-size MUs, and in the second group, the disorder is related to an acquired nervous injury during intrauterine life, with subsequent neurogenic remodeling of MUs. The trigeminofacial reflexes showed that in most subjects of both groups, the functional impairment of facial movements was caused by a nuclear or peripheral site of lesion, with little evidence of brainstem interneuronal involvement. Conclusion: Two different neurophysiologically defined phenotypes can be distinguished in sporadic Mobius syndrome, with different pathogenetic implications.

The localization of facial motor impairment in sporadic Mobius syndrome / Cattaneo, L; Chierici, E; Bianchi, B; Sesenna, Enrico; Pavesi, Giovanni. - In: NEUROLOGY. - ISSN 0028-3878. - 66:(2006), pp. 1907-1912. [10.1212/01.wnl.0000219766.96499.6c]

The localization of facial motor impairment in sporadic Mobius syndrome.

SESENNA, Enrico;PAVESI, Giovanni
2006-01-01

Abstract

Objective: To investigate the neurophysiologic aspects of facial motor control in patients with sporadic Mobius syndrome defined as nonprogressive congenital facial and abducens palsy. Methods: The authors assessed 24 patients with sporadic Mobius syndrome by performing a complete clinical examination and neurophysiologic tests including facial nerve conduction studies, needle electromyography examination of facial muscles, and recording of the blink reflex and of the trigeminofacial inhibitory reflex. Results: Two distinct groups of patients were identified according to neurophysiologic testing. The first group was characterized by increased facial distal motor latencies (DMLs) and poor recruitment of small and polyphasic motor unit action potentials (MUAPs). The second group was characterized by normal facial DMLs and neuropathic MUAPs. It is hypothesized that in the first group, the disorder is due to a rhombencephalic maldevelopment with selective sparing of small-size MUs, and in the second group, the disorder is related to an acquired nervous injury during intrauterine life, with subsequent neurogenic remodeling of MUs. The trigeminofacial reflexes showed that in most subjects of both groups, the functional impairment of facial movements was caused by a nuclear or peripheral site of lesion, with little evidence of brainstem interneuronal involvement. Conclusion: Two different neurophysiologically defined phenotypes can be distinguished in sporadic Mobius syndrome, with different pathogenetic implications.
2006
The localization of facial motor impairment in sporadic Mobius syndrome / Cattaneo, L; Chierici, E; Bianchi, B; Sesenna, Enrico; Pavesi, Giovanni. - In: NEUROLOGY. - ISSN 0028-3878. - 66:(2006), pp. 1907-1912. [10.1212/01.wnl.0000219766.96499.6c]
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