Traumatic bilateral fourth nerve palsy: Double vision induced by downward gaze after head injury

Clinicians should be alert to traumatic fourth nerve palsy in patients with double vision after head injury. In most cases with traumatic fourth nerve palsy, the imaging tests fail to show abnormal findings. In the cases of bilateral superior oblique paresis, the sensitivity of Bielschowsky head‐til...

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Autores principales: Tago, Masaki, Hisata, Yoshio, Hirata, Risa, Sakaguchi, Mika, Katsuki, Naoko E, Yamashita, Shu‐ichi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
Materias:
Images in Clinical Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7388665/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32742908
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgf2.310
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Sumario:Clinicians should be alert to traumatic fourth nerve palsy in patients with double vision after head injury. In most cases with traumatic fourth nerve palsy, the imaging tests fail to show abnormal findings. In the cases of bilateral superior oblique paresis, the sensitivity of Bielschowsky head‐tilt test is 40%.[Image: see text]

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