Pearls & Oy-sters: The medial longitudinal fasciculus in ocular motor physiology
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Pearls & Oy-sters: The medial longitudinal fasciculus in ocular motor physiology.
OBJECTIVE To review the role played by the medial longitudinal fasciculus (MLF) in ocular motor physiology and to characterize a number of syndromes that result from lesions in this eloquent brainstem tract system. BACKGROUND The MLF is responsible for transmitting information that is crucial for the coordination and synchronization of all major classes of eye movements. A number of disease p...
متن کاملPearls & Oy-sters: paroxysmal ocular tilt reaction.
Amadeo R. Rodriguez, MD Robert A. Egan, MD Jason J.S. Barton, MD, PhD, FRCPC In skew deviation, one eye is higher than the other, causing vertical diplopia. Skew deviation is a prenuclear disorder resulting from imbalance in otolith input to the oculomotor system, produced by unilateral lesions anywhere from the otoliths to the interstitial nucleus of Cajal in the rostral midbrain,1 and as such...
متن کاملPearls & oy-sters: ocular ischemic syndrome.
CASE REPORT A 46-year-old man with a 60-packyear smoking history, dyslipidemia, and migraine without aura had a cervical lateral acceleration/deceleration injury due to a motor vehicle accident while driving his car. No neurologic deficits were noticed within the next days. Ten days later, his right eye became gradually red, with ipsilateral lacrimation and ocular pain. Ophthalmoscopic examinat...
متن کاملPearls & oy-sters: oval pupil: two observations.
The presence of an oval pupil usually localizes the neurologic problem to the midbrain.
متن کاملPearls & Oy-sters: optic tract syndrome.
• The optic tract syndrome is characterized by a contralateral, incongruous homonymous hemianopia, contralateral relative afferent pupillary defect (RAPD), and optic atrophy due to retrograde axonal degeneration. • Optic disc pallor often results in a pattern of bowtie atrophy of the eye with temporal field loss and atrophy of the upper and lower poles of the disc of the eye with nasal field lo...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Neurology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0028-3878,1526-632X
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000310640.37810.b3