Symptomatic recovery in Miller Fisher syndrome parallels vestibular-perceptual and not vestibular-ocular reflex function

Frontiers in Neurology

Volumn FEB, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Seemungal, Barry M ^a   Masaoutis, Panos ^b   Green, David A ^c   Plant, Gordon T ^d   Bronstein, Adolfo M ^a  

^a CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b University Hospital of Athens   (Greece)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute ophthalmoplegia; Miller fisher syndrome; Vestibular perception; Vestibular velocity storage mechanism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858236541     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2011.00002     Document Type: Article

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