Pupil-sparing, painless compression of the oculomotor nerve by expanding basilar artery aneurysm: A case of ocular pseudomyasthenia

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1448-1450

  Ajtai, Bela ^a,b   Fine, Ed J ^a   Lincoff, Norah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b NONE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDROPHONIUM;

ADULT; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; CASE REPORT; DIPLOPIA; EVALUATION; HUMAN; MALE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NERVE COMPRESSION; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTOSIS; PUPIL; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; BLEPHAROPTOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIPLOPIA; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; OCULOMOTOR NERVE; PARESIS; PUPIL; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 4444317643     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.61.9.1448     Document Type: Article

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