title: Superior division paresis of the oculomotor nerve.
abstract: Five patients with isolated ptosis and a paresis of ocular elevation in abduction consistent with an isolated superior division III nerve palsy are reported. In all instances the III nerve appeared to be involved before its reported anatomic bifurcation into a superior and an inferior division, in the anterior cavernous sinus.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000783:Aneurysm / Q000150:complications; D001254:Astrocytoma / Q000150:complications; D001488:Basilar Artery; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D008581:Meningitis / Q000150:complications; D009802:Oculomotor Nerve / Q000473:pathology*; D009886:Ophthalmoplegia / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*