Localizing forms of nystagmus: Symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 414-420

  Lee, Andrew G ^a   Brazis, Paul W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3,4 DIAMINOPYRIDINE; ALCOHOL; BACLOFEN; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BOTULINUM TOXIN A; CANNABIS; CARBAMAZEPINE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CLONAZEPAM; FELBAMATE; GABAPENTIN; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE ANTIBODY; ISONIAZID; LAMOTRIGINE; LITHIUM; MEMANTINE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; PHENOTHIAZINE; PHENYTOIN; PHYSOSTIGMINE; SCOPOLAMINE; TOLUENE; TRIHEXYPHENIDYL; VALPROIC ACID;

BLURRED VISION; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CEREBELLUM DEGENERATION; CLOSTRIDIUM TETANI; CONGENITAL NYSTAGMUS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DIPLOPIA; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE SURGERY; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; LEUKODYSTROPHY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NYSTAGMUS; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; OSCILLATION; OSCILLOPSIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTERIOR CRANIAL FOSSA TUMOR; PTOSIS; REVIEW; STRABISMUS SURGERY; SYMPTOM; SYRINGOMYELIA; TETANUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VESTIBULAR NYSTAGMUS; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS;

ELECTRONYSTAGMOGRAPHY; EYE DISEASES; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; NYSTAGMUS, PATHOLOGIC; VERTIGO;

EID: 33748987629     PISSN: 15284042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-996-0022-y     Document Type: Review

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