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  • Title: [Role of functional interaction between the facial and masticatory muscles in the genesis of synkineses in patients with neuritis of the facial nerve].
    Author: Smirnov IuK, Melamed IT.
    Journal: Zh Nevropatol Psikhiatr Im S S Korsakova; 1979; 79(4):423-7. PubMed ID: 442911.
    Abstract:
    The electromyogram of orbicular muscles of the eye and masticatory muscles was studied in 19 patients with facial nerve neuritis and 11 normals. In a maximum contraction of the masticatory muscles, the orbicular muscles of the eye showed an activity equal to about 9% of the maximum amplitude of the orbicular muscles. Similar activity in the paretic muscles was not decreased. The development of secondary synkinesia is postulated.
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