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Periodic alternating esotropia
- Source :
- Journal of pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus. 29(4)
- Publication Year :
- 1992
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Abstract
- Periodic alternating esotropia (PAE) is a rare ocular motility disturbance observed in association with periodic alternating gaze deviation (PAG) or periodic alternating nystagmus. We examined a 9-month-old developmental^ delayed girl who showed PAE occurring synchronously with PAG. The ocular motility disorder consisted of rhythmic alternating fixation with the right eye in abduction, a left face turn and esotropia of the left eye (90 seconds), a changeover phase (10 to 15 seconds) during which the eyes are straight and the head is upright, then fixation with the left eye in abduction, a right face turn, and esotropia of the left eye (90 seconds). There was no spontaneous jerk nystagmus present. These findings continued incessantly during a follow-up period of 18 months. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed pronounced cerebellar vermis hypoplasia. Only three clinically similar cases have been previously reported, but none had been studied with modern neuroimaging techniques.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Periodicity
genetic structures
Jerk nystagmus
Fixation, Ocular
Periodic alternating
Rhythm
Cerebellar Diseases
Ophthalmology
Cerebellum
medicine
Humans
Esotropia
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Infant
Cerebellar vermis hypoplasia
Magnetic resonance imaging
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
eye diseases
Periodic Alternating Nystagmus
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Fixation (visual)
Female
sense organs
Atrophy
business
Follow-Up Studies
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 01913913
- Volume :
- 29
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....920bfdd16298bef0648a07dc37019711