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Isolated oculomotor nerve palsy following midbrain infarction
M Murakami1, I Kitano, Y Hitoshi
1Department of Neurosurgery, Minamata City General Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan.
Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery
|May 1, 1994
Abstract:
A 62 year-old male patient presented with isolated oculomotor nerve palsy following a small infarction of the medial ventral midbrain, documented by magnetic resonance imaging. There was a 12-year history of hypertension, but no diabetes mellitus. Angiography revealed atherosclerosis of the paramedian mesencephalic arteries. Magnetic resonance imaging may be useful in patients with small brain stem infarctions.