(KBD) Professor of Neurology and Ophthalmology, Director of Neuro-Ophthalmology, John A. Moran Eye Center, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah; (DMJ) Neuro-Ophthalmologist, Marshfield Clinic, University Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa
Subject
Superior Oblique Myokymia; Third Nerve Palsy
Description
Example of patients with superior oblique myokymia, a saccadic intrusion. First patient is seen to have intermittent, intorting movements with superimposed slight vertical deviations in right eye. Discussion of disorder as benign, but frequently disabling, as patients experience episodes of diplopia. Second patient shows a more prominent example of superior oblique myokymia in the left eye. Discussion of how to evoke the movement by having the patient gaze in the direction of the superior oblique muscle, and then back to forward gaze.
Date
1986
Language
eng
Format
video/mp4
Type
Image/MovingImage
Source
Original Format: VHS Videotape; Play length: 2:02; QT CD File Size: 39.1MB; Real CD File Size: 17.1MB; WMV CD File Size: 24.2MB