Inferior Branch Oculomotor Nerve Palsy - A Case Report

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Title Inferior Branch Oculomotor Nerve Palsy - A Case Report
Creator Emmett T. Cunningham, Jr., MD, MPH; William V. Good, MD
Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco 94143
Abstract We describe a 34-year-old man with acute, nontraumatic inferior branch oculomotor nerve palsy. Complete ophthalmologic, neurologic, and systemic examinations were otherwise normal. The oculomotor nerve palsy resolved, but the patient subsequently developed bilateral upper extremity numbness and painful dysesthesias in the distribution of the median nerves. These observations suggest that inferior branch oculomotor nerve palsy, although uncommon, may occur as part of a more generalized neurologic disorder, presumed in our patient to be either vasculitic or demyelinating in nature.
Subject Acute Disease; Adult; Humans; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Oculomotor Nerve Diseases; Tomography; X-Ray Computed
Date 1994-03
Language eng
Format application/pdf
Type Text
Publication Type Journal Article
Collection Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library: Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology Archives: https://novel.utah.edu/jno/
Publisher Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
Holding Institution Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah
Rights Management © North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society
ARK ark:/87278/s60g6r89
Setname ehsl_novel_jno
ID 224459
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s60g6r89
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