CYCLIC OCULOMOTOR PALSY

Cyclic Oculomotor Palsy.

THERE have been described about thirty cases of this interesting phenomenon. Axenfeld and Schuirenberg (1901) have their names attached to the condition in the Continental literature; they called it " Cyclic Congenital Oculomotor Disease". Fuchs, however, described a case much earlier (1893). The clinical picture is quite different from recurrent oculomotor palsy. The cause is still a matter of...

Traumatic Oculomotor Nerve Palsy

Oculomotor nerve palsy generally presents with mydriasis, blepharoptosis, and impairment of extraocular muscle movement. The incidence of primary traumatic oculomotor nerve palsy in craniocerebral trauma is approximately 1.2% [1]. The causes of oculomotor nerve palsy are congenital, traumatic, vascular, migrainous, and parainfectious. Especially in children, it is often caused by congenital fac...

Oculomotor nerve palsy.

Cyclic oculomotor paralysis.

Clewett Price, D. M., and Trounce, D. Q. (1973). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 48, 881. Cyclic oculomotor paralysis. Cyclic oculomotor palsy is a rare condition that is usually either congenital or presents in early childhood. Its essential features consist of paralysis of the oculomotor nerve supplying one eye with cycles of involuntary spasm and relaxation of the sphincter pupillae, and u...

MR of oculomotor nerve palsy.

PURPOSE To assess the utility of MR in third cranial nerve palsy. METHODS We reviewed precontrast and postcontrast MR of 50 patients with third cranial nerve palsy. RESULTS MR demonstrated an appropriate lesion in 32 cases. Of these patients, 6 had brain stem lesions and 15 had involvement of the nerve in the cavernous sinus; lesions of the cisternal segment of the nerve were present in 11 ...