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Cranio-cervical dystonia with laryngeal and upper-limb involvement
Disease definition
Cranio-cervical dystonia with laryngeal and upper-limb involvement is a rare genetic, isolated dystonia characterized by a variable combination of cervical dystonia with tremor, blepharospasm, oromandibular and laryngeal dystonia. Dystonia progresses slowly and might spread to become segmental. Arm tremor and myoclonic jerks in the arms or neck have also been reported.
ORPHA:420485
Classification level: Disorder- Synonym(s):
- DYT24
- Dystonia 24
- Prevalence: -
- Inheritance: Autosomal dominant
- Age of onset: Childhood, Adolescent, Adult
- ICD-10: G24.8
- OMIM: 615034
- UMLS: C3554374
- MeSH: -
- GARD: -
- MedDRA: -
A summary on this disease is available in Español (2018) Français (2018) Italiano (2018) Nederlands (2018) Polski ()
Detailed information
Guidelines
- Clinical practice guidelines
- Deutsch (2012) - AWMF
Disease review articles
- Clinical genetics review
- English (2017) - GeneReviews


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