Fourth Nerve Palsy Due to Neurocysticercosis

Bennett Yau-Bun Hong1, Andrew Bean, Aroucha Vickers

  • 1Department of Ophthalmology (BY-BH, AGL), The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas; McGovern Medical School (AB), Houston, Texas; Department of Ophthalmology (AV, AGL), Blanton Eye Institute, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas; Department of Pathology and Genomic Medicine (MC), Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas; Baylor College of Medicine (AGL), Houston, Texas; Department of Ophthalmology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery (AGL), Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York; Division of Ophthalmology (AGL), The University of Texas Maryland Anderson Cancer Center, Houston Texas; Department of Ophthalmology (AGL), The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa; and Department of Ophthalmology (AGL), Texas A and M College of Medicine, Temple, Texas.

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