Acute bilateral ophthalmoplegia
- 1 February 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurology
- Vol. 36 (2) , 279
- https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.36.2.279
Abstract
Of 60 patients with acute bilateral ophthalmoparesis, the cause was within the brainstem in 18 (pretectal infarct, phenytoin toxicity, and Wernicke's syndrome), in cranial nerves in 26 (Guillain-Barré or Fisher syndrome, tuberculous meningitis), within the cavernous sinuses in 8 (tumors or infection), and at the myoneural junction in 8 (myasthenia or botulism).This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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