An unusual variant of the dorsal midbrain syndrome in MS: Clinical characteristics and pathopysiologic mechanisms

Multiple Sclerosis

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 322-325

  Frohman, Elliot M ^a,b   Dewey, Richard B ^a   Frohman, Teresa C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Convergent retraction nystagmus; Dorsal midbrain; Skew deviation

Indexed keywords

METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEURORADIOLOGY; NYSTAGMUS; OCULOMOTOR SYSTEM; PARINAUD SYNDROME; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MESENCEPHALON; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, RELAPSING-REMITTING; NYSTAGMUS, PATHOLOGIC; REFLEX, VESTIBULO-OCULAR;

EID: 3042544809     PISSN: 13524585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/1352458504ms1043oa     Document Type: Review

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