Blickst�rungen bei vascul�ren Herden des mesodiencephalen �bergangsgebietes

Abduction paresis with rostral pontine and/or mesencephalic lesions: Pseudoabducens palsy and its relation to the so-called posterior internuclear ophthalmoplegia of Lutz

“…Our patients correspond to a number of previously reported patients, most of them with pathologically or radiologically proven midbrain or meso-diencephalic lesions, showing an abduction paresis with additional clinical signs of midbrain dysfunction like upgaze palsy, convergence paresis, or convergence nystagmus [3,7,9,22-29]. Such location was also obvious in another 2 patients with transient abduction paresis after ipsilateral mesencephalotomy [30].…”

Ocular bobbing

“…However there are pathologically verified cases in which unilateral brain-stem lesions were responsible (Kornyey, 1959;Molnar, 1959;Hatcher, 1965).…”