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Marcus Gunn Jaw Winking Synkinesis: Report of Two Cases with Congenital Ptosis

Author(s) -

Birce Dilge Taşkın,

Ömer Bektaş,

Zeynep Gürcan,

Alkım Öden Akman,

Esra Dağ Şeker,

Alev Güven,

Aydan DEĞERLİYURT,

Cahide Yılmaz

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

turkish journal of pediatric disease

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1307-4490

pISSN - 2148-3566

DOI - 10.12956/tjpd.2014.91

Subject(s) - medicine , ptosis , synkinesis , orthodontics , surgery , alternative medicine , pathology , palsy

Marcus Gunn Jaw Winking Synkinedis (MGJWS) is caused by aberrant innervation of the levator palpebrae superioris muscle by a branch of the trigeminal nerve’s motor division that supplies mastication. This phenomenon is seen in 4 to 6% of congenital ptosis patients. MGJWS mostly occurs i an unilateral and isolated manner but it is less frequently bilateral and associated with ocular and systemic abnormalities. Here we describe two cases of children who presented with ptosis and were diagnosed with MGJWS.

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