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Asymmetrical ocular pursuit with posterior fossa tumors
J M Furman1, M R Hurtt, W L Hirsch
1Department of Otolaryngology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA.
Annals of Neurology
|August 1, 1991
Abstract:
We report two patients with posterior fossa neoplasms who demonstrated asymmetrically impaired horizontal ocular pursuit documented with electrooculography. One patient had impaired pursuit contralateral to a pontomedullary lesion, whereas the second patient had impaired pursuit ipsilateral to a pontocerebellar lesion. These patients demonstrate that posterior fossa lesions may impair ocular pursuit either contralaterally or ipsilaterally unlike cerebral hemispheric lesions, which impair ocular pursuit ipsilaterally or bilaterally.