Abstract
A 48-year-old female presented with bilateral paralysis of supranuclear hori zontal conjugated gaze and impairment of various pontine, cerebellar and cervical spinal cord functions. The clinical signs and laboratory work-up indicated myeloencephalitis, probably of viral etiology. Paralysis of supranuclear horizontal conjugated gaze was produced experimentally by damaging the paramedial pontine reticularformation(PPRF). In the human, this a bnor-mality is extremely rare and, to the best of our knowledge, has not been reported previously in reversible encephalitis.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 211-213 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Neuro-Ophthalmology |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1985 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Abducens nucleus
- Brainstem encephalitis
- Horizontal gaze
- Medial longitudinal fasciculus
- Pontine paramedian reticular formation (PPRF)