PURPOSE To report the case of a patient with large-angle hypertropia of an intramuscular hemangioma of the right superior rectus muscle (SR). METHODS A 63-year-old man with progressive vertical deviation of the right eye for the past 6 months visited our strabismus department; his condition was not painful. An examination indicated that he had 60PD of right hypertropia at distance and near in...

249 words; text 6,646 words; 8 figures. Articles in PresS. J Neurophysiol (July 20, 2005). doi:10.1152/jn.01157.2004 Copyright © 2005 by the American Physiological Society. Demer and Clark Extraocular Muscle MRI During Ocular Counter-rolling JN-01157-2004.R2, page 2 Abstract The rectus extraocular muscle (EOM) pulleys constrain EOM paths. During visual fixation with head immobile, actively-cont...

Although there is detailed knowledge on the organization of the motor neurons supplying the extraocular muscles, there are still some discrepancies concerning the results of different studies. This study is planned to reexamine the distribution of the motor neurons in the oculomotor nucleus of the rat. In the present study we used 20 young adult Sprague-Dawley rats in four groups which represen...

A rare case of possible postinflammatory fibrosis of the superior rectus and superior oblique muscles, resulting in marked hypotropia with pseudoptosis, is described, together with the surgical management.

We studied the distribution of somatic motor neurons innervating the cat superior rectus 3-6 months after oculomotor nerve injury using intramuscular horseradish peroxidase (HRP). In normal cats, 98% or more of the labelled superior rectus motoneurons were in the contralateral oculomotor subnucleus. Two experimental cats who exhibited little or no evidence of recovery showed few labelled cells ...

Purpose To analyze in a frontal-eyed mammal (cat) the postnatal development of palisade endings in extraocular muscles (EOMs) and to compare the spatiotemporal and quantitative patterns of palisade endings among individual rectus muscles. Methods Cats of different ages ranging from birth to adult stage were studied. EOM whole-mount preparations were fluorescently labeled using six combination...