Vascular compression as a cause of superior oblique myokymia disclosed by thin-slice magnetic resonance imaging

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 131, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 676-677

  Hashimoto, Masato ^a   Ohtsuka, Kenji ^a   Hoyt, William F ^b  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MYOKYMIA; NERVE COMPRESSION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE; TREMOR; TROCHLEAR NERVE;

CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MYOKYMIA; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; OCULOMOTOR NERVE DISEASES; TROCHLEAR NERVE DISEASES;

EID: 0035003681     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9394(00)00876-X     Document Type: Article

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