Adult-onset bulbar ptosis in Joubert syndrome

Clinical Ophthalmology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 151-153

  Burt, Benjamin ^a   Levine, Johanan ^a   Le, Kim ^a  

^a Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso   (United States)

Author keywords

Diplopia; Joubert syndrome; Molar tooth formation; Ptosis; Silicone sling implants

Indexed keywords

SILICONE;

ADULT; ANISOCORIA; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CYST; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORPUS CALLOSUM AGENESIS; DIPLOPIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIVERGENT STRABISMUS; EYE EXAMINATION; EYELID RECONSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; JOUBERT SYNDROME; LEVATOR ANI MUSCLE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NERVE PARALYSIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PTOSIS; SILICONE PROSTHESIS; SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84857016059     PISSN: 11775467     EISSN: 11775483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/OPTH.S24440     Document Type: Article

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