PARESIS OF RIGHT SUPERIOR OBLIQUE AND OF LEFT SUPERIOR RECTUS MUSCLE

1 November 1944

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research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Ophthalmology (1950)

Vol. 32 (5) , 372-380
https://doi.org/10.1001/archopht.1944.00890110038004

Abstract

PARESIS OF THE RIGHT SUPERIOR OBLIQUE MUSCLE Recent Paresis. —In discussion of paresis of the right superior oblique muscle it should be understood that this entity differs in its manifestations, the symptoms depending on whether the paresis is of recent or of late origin. The clinical manifestations vary considerably between the one stage and the other. Also, in the intermediate stage, when the paresis is recovering and the contractures are becoming manifest, the symptoms differ somewhat from those in the early and late stages. Bielschowsky¹stated : "By far the most frequent and important type of paralysis of a single vertical motor anomaly is trochlear nerve palsy." This statement is most important because not infrequently there are variations which lead to a wrong diagnosis. Most statistics include too small a number of cases of paresis of the trochlear nerve because they are not recognized. The most striking sign of this

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