Total Third Nerve Paralysis

1 January 1972

journal article
case report
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Ophthalmology (1950)

Vol. 87 (1) , 107-109
https://doi.org/10.1001/archopht.1972.01000020109017

Abstract

A case of meningococcic meningitis is accompanied by a total third nerve palsy. The patient recovered third nerve function in three months so that her only residual was a slightly enlarged and sluggishly reactive pupil.

Keywords

PUPIL
NERVE PARALYSIS
FUNCTION
MENINGITIS
PALSY
SLIGHTLY
ENLARGED
SLUGGISHLY
MENINGOCOCCIC

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