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Query: UMLS:C0700208 (scoliosis)
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We studied 300 patients, 61% women, with mean age 49.7 years and mean duration of dystonia 7.8 years, to determine the demographic and clinical characteristics of cervical dystonia (CD) and its relationships to other movement disorders. Torticollis was present in 82%, laterocollis in 42%, retrocollis in 29%, and anterocollis in 25%; however, the majority (66%) had a combination of these abnormal postures. Scoliosis was present in 39%, local pain reported by 68%, and 32% had evidence of secondary cervical radiculopathy. In addition to CD, 16% of patients had oral dystonia, 12% mandibular dystonia, 10% hand/arm dystonia, and 10% had blepharospasm. Tremor was noted in 71% of patients; head-neck tremor was present in 60%, and tremor in other body regions was present in 32%. A family history of a movement disorder was present in 44% of the CD patients. Tardive dystonia was the cause in 6%; 11% had posttraumatic dystonia. Anticholinergic drugs provided moderate improvement in 33% of patients, but local intramuscular botulinum toxin injections relieved CD, local pain, or both in over 90% of all treated patients.
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PMID:Cervical dystonia: clinical findings and associated movement disorders. 206 38

We report a 12-year-old boy with idiopathic torsion dystonia. Blepharospasm appeared at the age of 10, followed by truncal hypertonia and progressive scoliosis after 1 year. He had bizarre involuntary movement of his limbs upon waking, which was initially misinterpreted as a psychogenic reaction. Routine neurological examinations revealed no abnormality. Treatment with diazepam, bacrophen, 1-dopa, and clonazepam, led to only short time improvement of symptoms. At the age of 14, his symptoms gradually improved in natural course. At present he is 15 years old, and capable of normal daily activities. His clinical course was not typical of idiopathic torsion dystonia and very rare in children.
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PMID:[A case of idiopathic torsion dystonia showing blepharospasm at the onset]. 1203 16

We previously observed that diseases of the anterior ocular segment predispose to primary blepharospasm, but not to other focal dystonias. In this multicenter study, we tested whether prior scoliosis, which increases the risk of developing cervical dystonia, is also a predisposing factor to blepharospasm. The frequency of scoliosis did not differ between blepharospasm patients and controls. This finding supports the hypothesis that environmental risk factors may be specific for a single form of adult-onset dystonia.
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PMID:Are nongenetic triggers for dystonia type-specific? A study exploring scoliosis in blepharospasm. 1726 Mar 41