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Diverticulum of the Rostral Cerebral Aqueduct With Ocular Dysfunctions
EDWARD J. FREDERICKS, MD;
CORNELIS VAN NUIS, MD
Arch Neurol. 1967;16(1):32-36.
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THE ASSOCIATION of a congenital cerebral aqueductal diverticulum and ocular dysfunctions, characterized principally by paralysis of upward gaze and impaired pupillary reactions, has not been described previously. This report concerns a middle-aged man with a variety of midbrain ocular abnormalities, presumably present since birth, in association with an outpouching of the rostrodorsal aspect of the cerebral aqueduct.
Report of a Case
This 41-year-old Negro minister was admitted to the University Hospitals for the second time in February 1966 with the chief complaint of intermittent headaches of three years' duration. The headaches were characterized by bifrontal pressing pain, followed by tightening of the occipital and posterior neck muscles. These headaches usually lasted 8 to 12 hours and disappeared after sleeping. The most severe headaches would last for several days. At times the headaches were increased in the horizontal or erect position and partially relieved by lying with the head
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Author Affiliations
MADISON, WIS
From the Department of Neurology, University of Wisconsin Medical Center, Madison, Wis.
Footnotes
Submitted for publication Sept 19, 1966; accepted Sept 30.
Reprint requests to Department of Neurology, University of Wisconsin Medical Center, 1954 E Washington Ave, Madison, Wis 53706 (Dr. Fredericks).
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