Clinical and MRI correlates in 27 patients with acquired pendular nystagmus

Brain

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 465-472

  Lopez, Lucrecia I ^a,c   Bronstein, A M ^a,b   Gresty, M A ^a   Du Boulay, E P G ^a   Rudge, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^c HOSPITAL RAMOS MEJÍA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Eye movements; MRI; Multiple sclerosis; Oscillopsia; Pendular nystagmus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEAFFERENTATION; DISEASE COURSE; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERIOR OLIVE; INTERNUCLEAR OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MESENCEPHALON; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE CELL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NYSTAGMUS; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RED NUCLEUS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STROKE; SYMPTOM; TEGMENTUM; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0029920319     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/119.2.465     Document Type: Article

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