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3694226

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2-3
pubmed:dateCreated
1988-2-12
pubmed:abstractText
Twenty-four patients with down beating nystagmus (DBN) underwent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the head. MRI provided diagnostic images in Arnold-Chiari malformation (6 cases), cerebellar atrophy (6 cases), 1 case with a prepontine-medullary epidermoid tumour and was helpful in the diagnosis of 2 patients with multiple sclerosis and 1 with a ponto-cerebellar infarct. Multiple cerebral hemisphere lesions were found in 6 patients (5 of them over 60 years of age) in whom no diagnosis was made. All cases of DBN, plus 3 additional patients with Arnold-Chiari malformation and other types of nystagmus, were neuro-otologically assessed. Sensitivity of the nystagmus to head tilt with respect to the gravity vector had no localizing value. Impaired horizontal vestibulo-ocular reflex suppression occurred more frequently in those patients with abnormal posterior fossa MRI. Pure torsional nystagmus, and DBN with a strong torsional component, in patients with Arnold-Chiari malformation was associated with syringomyelia. Magnetic resonance is the imaging method of choice for investigating patients with DBN.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0022-510X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
81
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
173-84
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1987
pubmed:articleTitle
Down beating nystagmus: magnetic resonance imaging and neuro-otological findings.
pubmed:affiliation
Medical Research Council Neuro-Otology Unit, National Hospital, London, U.K.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't