Isolated bilateral abducens nerve palsies caused by the rupture of a vertebral artery aneurysm.

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Title Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology, December 1992, Volume 12, Issue 4
Date 1992-12
Language eng
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Publication Type Journal Article
Collection Neuro-ophthalmology Virtual Education Library: NOVEL http://NOVEL.utah.edu
Publisher Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
Holding Institution Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah, 10 N 1900 E SLC, UT 84112-5890
Rights Management © North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society
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Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6545tqp

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Title Isolated bilateral abducens nerve palsies caused by the rupture of a vertebral artery aneurysm.
Creator Morioka, T.; Matsushima, T.; Yokoyama, N.; Muratani, H.; Fujii, K.; Fukui, M.
Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
Abstract We report two cases with isolated bilateral abducens nerve palsies due to the rupture of a vertebral aneurysm. Surgery revealed that the aneurysm did not directly compress the abducens nerve. Within a year after the subarachnoid hemorrhage, the patients gained full recovery from the bilateral abducens nerve palsies. In view of the clinical and operative findings, it may be regarded as a compression and/or stretching of the bilateral abducens nerves by a thick clot in the prepontine cistern, and not as a manifestation of the raised intracranial pressure. The mechanisms of the isolated abducens nerve palsy are discussed.
Subject Abducens Nerve; Older people; Aneurysm, Ruptured; Cranial Nerve Diseases; Female; Humans; Middle Older people; Paralysis; Subarachnoid Hemorrhage; Vertebral Artery
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Holding Institution Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah, 10 N 1900 E SLC, UT 84112-5890
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ID 226127
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6545tqp/226127