IgG anti-GQ1b antibody was present in a patient with acute ataxia and areflexia without ophthalmoplegia or elementary sensory loss. Sensory nerve conduction studies and somatosensory evoked potentials were normal, but postural body sway analysis showed dysfunction of the proprioceptive afferent system. The clinical presentation and laboratory results for this patient resemble those of Miller Fi...

PURPOSE To report a case of pure isolated unilateral internuclear ophthalmoplegia from ischemic stroke, and to review its literature. METHODS A 55-year old man, with a history of long-standing diabetes mellitus, developed acute-onset left internuclear ophthalmoplegia. MRI revealed a small paramedian dorsal pontine infarct ventral and lateral to the aquaductus cerebri. Intracranial MR angiogra...

A 40-year-old female after a closed head injury presented with bilateral internuclear ophthalmoplegia. Attempted convergence was abnormal and MRI revealed the focal hemorrhage in the medial longitudinal fasciculus region by showing bright signal in the a pontomesencephalic region in the midline on both T1 and T2 weighted images. The patient regained normal ocular mobility after six months of th...

Miller Fisher syndrome (MFS) is an immune mediated neuropathy commonly triggered by infection. It considered as a variant of Guillain-Barre syndrome. Although bilateral ophthalmoplegia the commonest ocular involvement in MFS, there are reported cases unilateral ophthalmoplegia. MFS has benign course and treatment not required majority unless life threatening complication. We report unusual case...

Mucormycosis is a rare life threatening opportunistic fungal infection Caused by fungi of mycorales order belonging to the Phycomycetes class. Because of its rapid progression and high mortality, early recognition and aggressive treatment offers the only chance to increase the survival rate. We report a patient with mucormycosis who presented with painful opthalmoplegia and was incidentally det...