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Brissaud-Sicard syndrome
Also known as:
Brissaud's hemicraniosis
Brissaud's syndrome
Brissaud-Sicard symptom complex
Associated persons:
Édouard Brissaud
Jean Athanase Sicard
Description:
Facial hemispasms associated with motor disturbances - paralysis - of the contralateral extremity. It is due to lesions of the pons.
Bibliography:
- E. Brissaud:
Recherches anatomo-pathologiques et phsyiologiques sur la contracture permanente des hémiplégies.
Versailles, 1880, page 206.
- E. Brissaud, J. A. Sicard:
L’hémispasme facial alterne.
Presse médicale, Paris, 1908, 16:234-236.
Type special de syndrome alterne.
Revue neurologique, Paris, 1908, 16: 86.
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