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Extraocular Muscles -  OCULOMOTOR APRAXIA Lecture 9 of 49  NEXT»

Oculomotor apraxia is defined as defective or absent horizontal voluntary eye movements and includes head thrusting to look at objects to the side.

 

1. Ataxia-telangiectasia syndrome

2. Brain tumor

            A. Astrocytoma

            B. Lipoma

3. Isolated

4. Male predominance

5. Neurofibromatosis

6. Oral-facial-digital syndrome type II

7. Post cardiac surgery

 

Isenberg SJ. The eye in infancy. Chicago: Year Book Medical, 1989.

 

Moschner C, et al. Comparison of oculomotor findings in the progressive ataxia syndromes. Brain 1995; 117:15-25.

 

Zackon DH, Noel L. Ocular motor apraxia following cardiac surgery. Can J Ophthal 1991; 26:102.

 

Zaret C, et al. Congenital ocular motor apraxia and brainstem tumor. Arch Ophthalmol 1980; 98:328-330.


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