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Persistent tongue protrusion dystonia after cerebral infarction
  1. Rana Alnasser Alsukhni1,
  2. Hamsaraj Shetty1,
  3. Tom A T Hughes2
  1. 1 Department of Stroke Medicine, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, Cardiff, UK
  2. 2 Neurology, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, Cardiff, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Hamsaraj Shetty; hamsaraj.shetty{at}wales.nhs.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/pn-2024-004120

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    A 72-year-old woman was hospitalised following a sudden loss of consciousness. She had hypertension and atherosclerotic vascular disease, causing bilateral internal carotid artery stenosis. She was drowsy, mute and tetraparetic. A CT scan of the head showed left occipitotemporal, cerebral peduncle and bilateral thalamic infarctions . During the admission, she developed eyelid closure dystonia, persistent tongue protrusion with dyskinetic movements of the …

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    • Contributors RAA: conception of the case report, acquisition and analysis of data, and drafting of the manuscript. HS and TATH: critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally reviewed by Oliver Bandmann, Sheffield, UK and Neil Anderson, Auckland, New Zealand.

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