Case Reports in Neurology (Jun 2010)

Parry-Romberg Syndrome Associated with Localized Scleroderma

  • Jelena Maletic,
  • Vassiliki Tsirka,
  • Panos Ioannides,
  • Dimitrios Karacostas,
  • Nikolaos Taskos

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1159/000314927
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 2
pp. 57 – 62

Abstract

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Parry-Romberg syndrome is a rare neurocutaneous disorder of unknown origin. It is characterized by progressive facial hemiatrophy and frequently overlaps with a condition known as linear scleroderma ‘en coup de sabre’. Neurological involvement is frequently described in these patients, including migraine, facial pain and epilepsy, which represent the commonest neurological conditions, sometimes associated with brain abnormalities ipsilaterally to the skin lesions. We present a case of Parry-Romberg syndrome with neurological involvement in a patient with diagnosed localized scleroderma (morphea).

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