DIVERGENCE PARALYSIS AND HEAD TRAUMA
- 1 February 1945
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Neurology & Psychiatry
- Vol. 53 (2) , 135-137
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archneurpsyc.1945.02300020047005
Abstract
We have been able to find the report of only 5 cases of divergence paralysis as a complication of head injury. Bielschowsky1recorded the case of a youth aged 17 who sustained a cerebral concussion six weeks before ophthalmologic examination. He began to see double at a distance a few days after the accident. Four weeks after he was first seen there was no alteration in his condition. Weed1breported 4 cases, in 1 of which the paralysis persisted three years. In a series of 1,550 cases of head injury encountered in private practice, we found 6 cases of divergence paralysis. In view of the paucity of such reports, a brief summary of these cases may be of clinical value. REPORT OF CASES Case 1. —A girl aged 11 years complained of headache, double vision and difficulty in reading which had followed an accident two years before. SheThis publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: