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Blepharospasm as the presenting feature of papillary thyroid cancer and parathyroid adenoma
Roland Dominic G Jamora1, Adrian I Espiritu2, Janet J Santiago3
1Movement Disorders Service and Section of Neurology, Institute for Neurosciences, St. Luke's Medical Center, Quezon City, Philippines; Department of Neurosciences, College of Medicine, Philippine General Hospital, University of the Philippines Manila, Manila, Philippines.
Abstract:
Blepharospasm is a type of focal dystonia depicted by periodic and spontaneous closure of the orbicularis oculi and surrounding muscles. Typical secondary etiologies of blepharospasm may include ophthalmologic and structural brain lesions. In this article, we report a novel case of a patient with a biopsy-proven concurrent papillary carcinoma of the thyroid gland and adenoma of the parathyroid gland with blepharospasm as an exceptionally unique initial manifestation. This report showed that a diagnostic work-up for causes of blepharospasm may include a search for these neoplasm and surgical removal of these masses may offer significant symptomatic control of the focal dystonia.
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