Pupil-sparing oculomotor nerve palsy caused by upward compression of a large posterior communicating artery aneurysm

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 202-205

  Motoyama, Yasushi ^a   Nonaka, Junichi ^a   Hironaka, Yasuo ^a   Park, Young Soo ^a   Nakase, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebral aneurysm; Neck clipping; Oculomotor nerve; Parasympathetic nerve; Posterior communicating artery

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANEURYSM CLIP; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; DIPLOPIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NERVE COMPRESSION; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; POSTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY ANEURYSM; PTOSIS; PUPIL SPARING OCULOMOTOR NERVE PALSY;

AGED; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CIRCLE OF WILLIS; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MYDRIASIS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; OCULOMOTOR NERVE DISEASES; PARASYMPATHETIC FIBERS, POSTGANGLIONIC; PUPIL; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 84859952636     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.52.202     Document Type: Article

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