Isolated oculomotor nerve palsy following midbrain infarction

Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 1994 May;96(2):188-90. doi: 10.1016/0303-8467(94)90061-2.

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Cerebral Angiography
  • Cerebral Infarction / complications*
  • Cerebral Infarction / physiopathology
  • Dominance, Cerebral / physiology
  • Humans
  • Intracranial Arteriosclerosis / complications
  • Intracranial Arteriosclerosis / physiopathology
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Oculomotor Nerve / physiopathology
  • Oculomotor Nerve Diseases / etiology*
  • Oculomotor Nerve Diseases / physiopathology
  • Tegmentum Mesencephali / blood supply*
  • Tegmentum Mesencephali / pathology