title: Tonic pupils following oculomotor nerve palsies.
abstract: Four patients developed a unilateral tonic pupil following ipsilateral oculomotor nerve palsy. The probable basis for this phenomenon is misdirection of injured oculoparasympathetic fibers in the oculomotor nerve proximal to the ciliary ganglion.
mesh_terms: D000065:Accommodation, Ocular; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009886:Ophthalmoplegia / Q000503:physiopathology*; D010862:Pilocarpine / Q000494:pharmacology; D011680:Pupil / Q000187:drug effects / Q000528:radiation effects*
chemical_list: D010862:Pilocarpine