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  Vol. 38 No. 2, February 1981 TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Upward Gaze Paralysis Following Unilateral Pretectal Infarction

Computerized Tomography Correlation

Michael S. Smith, MD; Jose F. Laguna, MD

Arch Neurol. 1981;38(2):127-129.


Abstract

• Sudden paralysis of upward gaze developed in a 47-year-old diabetic woman. Computerized tomographic scan and subsequent studies were consistent with a unilateral pretectal infarction. The mechanisms of upward gaze are discussed.



Author Affiliations

From the Department of Neurology, University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson.


Footnotes

Accepted for publication May 25, 1980.

Read in part before the fifth annual Rocky Mountain Neuro-Ophthalmology Conference, Jackson, Wyo, Feb 23, 1979.

Reprint requests to Department of Neurology, University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, 1501 N Campbell Ave, Tucson, AZ 85724 (Dr Smith).







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