Clinical reasoning: a 36-year-old man with vertical diplopia.
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Sashank Prasad, MD Nicholas J. Volpe, MD Madhura A. Tamhankar, MD SECTION 1 A 36-year-old man with Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome presented with binocular vertical diplopia following suboccipital craniotomy for resection of a cerebellar hemangioblastoma. His diplopia was worse in left gaze. He was effectively treated with a 6-diopter base-down prism in the right eye. With-out spontaneous improvement after 10 months of using prisms, he desired an alternative to prism correction.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Neurology
دوره 72 19 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009