Unilateral Vertical Pendular Nystagmus in Multiple Sclerosis: A Distinctive Neuro-Ophthalmological Sign

Lesions in multiple sclerosis can involve brain, optic nerve and spinal cord. We here report a patient of multiple sclerosis, who had unilateral vertical pendular nystagmus, because of simultaneous involvement of optic nerve and asymmetric brain stem lesions. This specific combination is rarely seen...

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Autores principales: Singhvi, Jeenendra Prakash, Singh, Amit Shankar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2019
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Clinical Sign
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6327690/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30692773
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/aian.AIAN_289_18
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description Lesions in multiple sclerosis can involve brain, optic nerve and spinal cord. We here report a patient of multiple sclerosis, who had unilateral vertical pendular nystagmus, because of simultaneous involvement of optic nerve and asymmetric brain stem lesions. This specific combination is rarely seen in other disorders, therefore can be considered as a distinctive neuro-opthalmoloical sign of multiple sclerosis.
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spelling pubmed-63276902019-01-28 Unilateral Vertical Pendular Nystagmus in Multiple Sclerosis: A Distinctive Neuro-Ophthalmological Sign Singhvi, Jeenendra Prakash Singh, Amit Shankar Ann Indian Acad Neurol Clinical Sign Lesions in multiple sclerosis can involve brain, optic nerve and spinal cord. We here report a patient of multiple sclerosis, who had unilateral vertical pendular nystagmus, because of simultaneous involvement of optic nerve and asymmetric brain stem lesions. This specific combination is rarely seen in other disorders, therefore can be considered as a distinctive neuro-opthalmoloical sign of multiple sclerosis. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6327690/ /pubmed/30692773 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/aian.AIAN_289_18 Text en Copyright: © 2006 - 2018 Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title Unilateral Vertical Pendular Nystagmus in Multiple Sclerosis: A Distinctive Neuro-Ophthalmological Sign
title_full Unilateral Vertical Pendular Nystagmus in Multiple Sclerosis: A Distinctive Neuro-Ophthalmological Sign
title_fullStr Unilateral Vertical Pendular Nystagmus in Multiple Sclerosis: A Distinctive Neuro-Ophthalmological Sign
title_full_unstemmed Unilateral Vertical Pendular Nystagmus in Multiple Sclerosis: A Distinctive Neuro-Ophthalmological Sign
title_short Unilateral Vertical Pendular Nystagmus in Multiple Sclerosis: A Distinctive Neuro-Ophthalmological Sign
title_sort unilateral vertical pendular nystagmus in multiple sclerosis: a distinctive neuro-ophthalmological sign
topic Clinical Sign
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6327690/
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