Bilateral trochlear nerve palsy in a patient with neuromyelitis optica.

Mult Scler Relat Disord

Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address:

Published: March 2014

We present a unique case of isolated bilateral simultaneous cranial nerve (CN) IV palsy in a patient with neuromyelitis optica (NMO). Although some CN IV abnormalities have been described in multiple sclerosis (MS), no case of isolated bilateral simultaneous CN IV has been reported, to our knowledge, in either NMO or MS.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.msard.2013.08.002DOI Listing

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