Pathological torsional eye deviation during voluntary saccades: A violation of Listing's law

Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 253-260

  Helmchen, Christoph ^a,b   Glasauer, Stefan ^b   Büttner, Ulrich ^a  

^a Department of Neurology ^*  (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blips; Listing's law; Torsional eye deviations; Voluntary saccades

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TORSION;

EID: 0030970166     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.62.3.253     Document Type: Article

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