title: Miller Fisher syndrome: etiological significance of serial blink reflexes and MRI study.
abstract: We studied a patient with Miller Fisher syndrome using a serial MRI and electrophysiological procedures. There were peripheral nerve pathology and CNS dysfunction. In particular, MRI showed a lesion at the level of the 3rd nerve nucleus.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hatanaka
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Higashino
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yasuhara
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
mesh_terms: D001259:Ataxia / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D001767:Blinking / Q000502:physiology*; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009886:Ophthalmoplegia / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012021:Reflex, Abnormal / Q000502:physiology*; D013577:Syndrome