Retraction nystagmus indicates the presence of a lesion in the rostra1 periaqueductal-midbrain region [31. It may occur spontaneously or on deviation of gaze from the midposition, most commonly on attempts to look upward. In the patient described here, retraction nystagmus occurred only on bilateral
A case of congenital Werdnig-Hoffmann disease with glial bundles in spinal roots
β Scribed by Hiroshi Mitsumoto; Lester S. Adelman; Hsiu-Chih Liu
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1982
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 371 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0364-5134
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