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each side. Uffenheimer stresses the fact that this tetany face appears 

 very early in children and is therefore of great value for early diagnosis. 

 It is to be regarded as a premonitory symptom, though why this slight 

 tonic spasm of the facial musculature should appear at so early a stage 



Fig. 3. The tetany face in children. (After Uffenheimer, Jahrb. f. Kinderheilk., 

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1905.) 



in the disease is not clear. Sometimes the features of the tetany face 

 become more marked when the child is crying than when it is at rest; 

 or the tetany face may first appear during an eclamptic attack. Though 

 this tetany face is not present in all cases of tetany in children, it is so 



