PROGRESSIVE FACIAL HEMIATROPHY

Abstract

Originally described by Romberg in 1846, and for this reason likewise known as Romberg's disease, progressive facial hemiatrophy has since aroused the interest of clinicians practically in every part of the world and furnished the theme for a large number of publications. Important monographs ** on the subject have been written by Möbius,¹Cassirer²and Marburg,³and more than 25 theses have been devoted to it in France and Germany alone, that by Korn⁴being unquestionably one of the most remarkable. The condition receives rather scant attention in most textbooks on neurology, the most notable exception being Oppenheim's⁵famous Lehrbuch, in which it was accorded a lengthy and exceptionally instructive description. In recent years, probably the most noteworthy contribution on facial hemiatrophy is that by Wartenberg,⁶which appeared in 1925. The older literature has been completely indexed by Cassirer and particularly by Otto Marburg, and