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Nontraumatic numbness of the chin
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  • Patient had impaired sensation on the right side of the chin. [102]
  • This patient had numbness of the lower two-thirds of the face due to a localized indolent lymphoma. [103]
  • Book review (Mayo Clin Proc 1991;66:343) says this book assigns the eponym "Roger's sign" to the syndrome of the numb chin. [104]
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    (1) Mental neuropathy from systemic cancer.
  Massey EW, Moore J, et al.   Neurology 1981 Oct;31(10):1277-81.  Pubmed+Abstract  Similars
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    101.Numb chin syndrome in cancer patients: etiology, response to treatment, and prognostic significance [see comments].
  Lossos A, Siegal T.   Neurology 1992 Jun;42(6):1181-4.  Pubmed+Abstract  Similars
    102.Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Weekly clinicopathological exercises. Case 27-1994. A 41-year-old woman with neurologic abnormalities and an osteolytic lesion in the mandible [clinical conference] [see comments].
  N Engl J Med 1994 Jul 14;331(2):107-13.  Pubmed  Similars
    103.Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Weekly clinicopathological exercises. Case 22-1993. A 22-year-old man with 20 months of progressive swelling of the face.
  N Engl J Med 1993 Jun 3;328(22):1625-31.  Pubmed  Similars
    104.Localization in Clinical Neurology. 2nd ed.
  Brazis PW, et al. Boston: Little, Brown, 1990: 509 pp.
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