Abduction paresis with rostral pontine and/or mesencephalic lesions: Pseudoabducens palsy and its relation to the so-called posterior internuclear ophthalmoplegia of Lutz

BMC Neurology

Volumn 1, Issue , 2001, Pages

  Thömke, Frank ^a   Hopf, Hanns Christian ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

ABDUCENS NERVE INJURY; ABDUCENS NERVE PARALYSIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN STEM INFARCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; INHIBITION KINETICS; INTERNUCLEAR OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; JAW OPENING REFLEX; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MESENCEPHALON; MUSCLE TONE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; ABDUCENS NERVE DISEASE; BLINKING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; MASSETER MUSCLE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PARESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PONS; REACTION TIME;

ABDUCENS NERVE DISEASES; BLINKING; BRAIN STEM INFARCTIONS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MASSETER MUSCLE; MESENCEPHALON; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; OCULAR MOTILITY DISORDERS; PARESIS; PONS; REACTION TIME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SACCADES;

EID: 2642576045     PISSN: 14712377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2377-1-4     Document Type: Article

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