Unilateral midbrain infarction causing upward and downward gaze palsy

Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 173-176

  Alemdar, Murat ^a   Kamaci, Senol ^a   Budak, Faik ^a  

^a KOCAELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMMISSURE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIPLOPIA; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GAZE PARALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL CELL OF CAJAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MEDIAL LONGITUDINAL FASCICULUS; MESENCEPHALON; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROOPHTHALMOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SMOOTH PURSUIT EYE MOVEMENT; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

BRAIN INFARCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MESENCEPHALON; MIDDLE AGED; OCULAR MOTILITY DISORDERS;

EID: 33748687017     PISSN: 10708022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.wno.0000235588.18169.de     Document Type: Article

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