Spontaneous vertical eye movements associated with pontine lesions.
Ocular bobbing, dipping and "reversed" ocular dipping were observed and recorded in two patients presenting a severe neurological symptomatology: quadruplegia and coma in one and locked-in syndrome in the other. CT scan showed a pontine infarction in both these patients. This is the first time that the ocular dipping and "reversed" ocular dipping are related to such an anatomic structure.
Herishanu
Y O
YO
Department of Neurology, Soroka Medical Center, Beer Sheva, Israel.
Abarbanel
J M
JM
Frisher
S
S
Farkash
P
P
Berginer
J
J
Amir-Schechter
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D000368:Aged; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D004585:Electrooculography; D005133:Eye Movements; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011149:Pons / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011782:Quadriplegia; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed