Intermittent see-saw eye movements. Report of a patient in coma after hyperextension head injury.
For 24 hours after an automobile accident, a 19-year-old comatose man exhibited spontaneous, intermittent, see-saw, rotatory, and downward eye movements with synchronous lid elevation. These unusual movements, which appear most closely related to nonpendular see-saw nystagmus and atypical ocular bobbing, probably resulted from the severe pontomedullary tegmental damage found at autopsy.
D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D000328:Adult; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D001933:Brain Stem / Q000473:pathology; D003128:Coma / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005133:Eye Movements; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male