IDIOPATHIC TORSION DYSTONIA (DYSTONIA MUSCULORUM DEFORMANS) - REVIEW OF 42 PATIENTS
IDIOPATHIC TORSION DYSTONIA (DYSTONIA MUSCULORUM DEFORMANS) - REVIEW OF 42 PATIENTS
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DOI:
10.1093/brain/97.1.793
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发表时间:
1974-01-01
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影响因子:
14.5
通讯作者:
HARRISON, MJ
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作者:
MARSDEN, CD;HARRISON, MJ
IOIOPATInC TORSION DYSTONIA (dystonia musculorum deformans) is a rare and fascinating disease. The first description has been credited to Destarac, who, in 1901, reported the case of a 17-year-old woman who developed torticollis, tortipelvis, writer's cramp and spasmodic talipes equinovarus (Zeman and Dyken, 1968). Subsequently, Schwalbe (1908), Ziehen (1911), and Oppenheim (1911) all described similar patients. Oppenheim (1911) coined the word" dystonia" to describe the faulty muscle tone without pyramidal deficit, and introduced the descriptive title" dystonia musculorum deformans." Initially there was some doubt as to the existence of this newly described illness, for it was pointed out that many diseases of the brain could produce the abnormal movement disorder characteristic of torsion dystonia (Wimmer, 1929), but in 1944 Herz showed that torsion dystonia could appear in isolation without apparent cause, and the entity idiopathic torsion dystonia (dystonia musculorum deformans) became firmly established by the discovery that it is frequently an inherited disease, particularly amongst Jews (Zeman and Dyken, 1967; Eldridge, 1970).Most neurological textbooks suggest that the disease commences in childhood and is relentlessly progressive, so that the patient is inevitably crippled by grotesque involuntary movements and postures by the time he reaches adult life. From careful family studies, however, such as those of Zeman, Kaelbling and Pasamanick (1960), it has become apparent that idiopathic torsion dystonia can vary in its severity, age of onset, and prognosis. Furthermore, these genetic studies have suggested that idiopathic torsion dystonia may consist of a number of discrete types, identifiable on genetic and clinical grounds. We have, therefore, reviewed a series of 42 patients whom we have studied personally.