Meige's syndrome

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Meige's syndrome
This 16th-century painting by Flemish artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder is one of the oldest known depictions of the facial dystonia associated with this syndrome.
Specialty	Neurology

Meige's syndrome is a type of dystonia. It is also known as Brueghel's syndrome and oral facial dystonia. It is actually a combination of two forms of dystonia, blepharospasm and oromandibular dystonia (OMD).

When OMD is combined with blepharospasm, it may be referred to as Meige's Syndrome named after Henri Meige,^[1] the French neurologist who first described the symptoms in detail in 1910. The symptoms usually begin between the ages of 30 and 70 years old and appear to be more common in women than in men (2:1 ratio). The combination of upper and lower dystonia is sometimes called cranial-cervical dystonia.^[2] The incidence is about one case in 20,000 people.^[3]