Ophthalmology / Otology Flashcards

1
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Most common genetic cause for congenital visual impairment (1) and other features (3)

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  1. Leber convenital amaurosis (retinal dystrophy)
  2. Features
    1. Visual impairment beginning a 3-4 months > nystagmus and sluggish pupils
    2. midface hypoplasia
    3. Cognitive / developmental delay
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What does this show?

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Optic nerve edema from optic neuritis
NOT papilledema (pictured below)
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What does this show?

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Optic disk edema and splinter hemorrhages 2/2 AION

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What does this show?

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Optic atrophy (From longstanding MS)

  • pale, “shrunken” appearing disc
  • pallor extends beyond margins of disc
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Location of vertical and horizontal Gaze Centers

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Centers for:
Saccaddes
Pursuit

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  1. Saccades
    1. Contralateral frontal lobe
  2. Pursuit
    1. Ipsilateral parietal / occipital
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7
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nerve most commonly injured in head trauma

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CN IV

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Midbrain:
Structures (7)
Locations of Injury (2)

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Lesions of the third Nerve Nuclei

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        1. Superior rectus nucleus (Contralateral)
  1. Levator nucleus (levator palpebrae)
    1. NOTE: single nuclei controls both eyes
      6.
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Patient arrives with right CN III nuclear palsy:

how do you tell if the levator nuclei was damaged?

A
  1. levator nuclei
    1. Bilateral ptosis (injured) or NO ptosis at all (not injured)
  2. Superior rectus nuclei
    1. Injured = left SR is damaged
    2. not injured: NO SR damage
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Patient arrives with right CN III palsy and bilateral ptosis

what was damaged?

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CN III nuclei with invovlement of levator palpebare nucleus

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Pons Anatomy (9)

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13
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Patient arrives with isolated CN III palsy
What is the significance of also having:

Contralateral hemiparesis? (3)
Contralateral hand tremor? (3)
Cerebellar ataxia? (3)
Contralateral hand tremor AND cerebellar ataxia?

A
  1. Contralateral hemiparesis = Weber
    1. CN III fascicle
    2. pyramidal tract
  2. Contralateral hand tremor = benedikt syndrome
    1. CN III fascicle
    2. Red nucleus
  3. Cerebellar ataxia = Nothnagles
    1. CN III fascicle
    2. superior cerebellar peduncle
  4. Both 2 and 3 = claude’s syndrome
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14
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Patient arrives with Abducens palsy
what is the significance of also having:

Ipsilateral Facial palsy + Contralateral Hemiparesis (4).

Ipsilateral loss of facial sensation, facial palsy, and horners syndrome?

A
  1. VI, VII palsy + CL hemiparesis = Millard-Gubler syndrome
    1. VI fascicles
    2. VII fascicles
    3. Pyramidal tract
  2. Facial sensation, facial palsy, and horners = Fovile’s syndrome
    1. CN V
    2. CN VI nucleus
    3. CN VII nucleus and sympathetics
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15
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Why does blown pupil with CN III raise concerns?

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Nerve fibers corresponding to pupillary constriction are in the periphery, and thus are targeted during compressing lesions (like aneurysm)

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16
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Features of Dorsal Midbrain syndrome

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Vertical gaze palsy

Convergence - retraction nystagmus

lid retraction

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17
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Patient comes in with:
Vertical gaze Palsy
lid Retraction
Pulsating in-and-out movements of eyes with vertically moving OKN drum

Where is the lesion?
what are you suspecting as the cause?
what would you not expect to see?

A

Dorsal midbrain (Dorsal midbrain syndrome)

suspect:
OLD = Stroke
young = Pinealoma

would NOT expect to see pupillary light-near dissociation

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18
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Patient unable to look left, but eyes look left when head is passively turned to the right

what does this tell you?

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This is a supranuclear lesion due to positive doll’s eye maneuver

(possibly due to frontal lobe stroke)

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19
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Horizontal or vertical gaze palsy but positive Doll’s eye in that direction suggets what?

A

supranuclear lesion

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20
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What does this show?

what is damaged?

What two other features will you see?

A

Bilateral Intranuclear ophthalmoplegia (bilateral limitation of ADDuction)

Damage to medial longitudinal fasciculus

Will also see:
beating nystagmus of adducting eye
vertical skew deviation = vertical diplopia

(#2)

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21
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What does this show?

what is the syndrome?

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Right horizontal Gaze palsy + Right medial rectus palsy when looking left

One-and-a-half-syndrome

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22
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“Painful horners”

Make sure to rule out what?

What should you also see (3)?

A

Carotid Dissection

Vision loss IL to horners
Headache IL to horners
CL hemiparesis

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23
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What is damaged here?

What will worsen the pupillary finding?

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Sypathetic innervation to the right eye (horners)

Anisocoria will be more evident in DIM light (sympathetics / Dilation is what is affected)

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24
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How would we confirm this diagnosis?

Option 1:
what drug?
what do you see?

Option 2:
what drug?
what do you see?

A

Option 1: Cocaine

  1. Affected Pupil will NOT dilate

Aproclonidine

  1. Affected WILL dilate
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25
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Threshold for physiologic anisocoria

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<1-2 mm

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26
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What is this showing?

What does this suggest?

If this wasn’t present, what would you want to exclude?

A

Horners syndrome with hypochromia of the iris

congenital horners (also feed into melanocytes of eye)

pediatric acquired horners = r/o pineoblastoma

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Woman with this eye finding and “wiggly” pupillary movements.

What other finding would you see?

How would you test?

A

Light-near dissociation (picture)

Dilute Pilocarpine
Will cause constriction (because it’s hypersensitive)

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28
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Woman with this eye finding and “wiggly” pupillary movements.

what is injured?

what are the two most common causes?

A

Ciliary gangion
“wiggly” = vermiform movements

most common causes:
post-viral
trauma / surgery to eye

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29
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What does this show?

What conditions can you see it in (3) ?

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Light-Near dissociation

Seen in:
Argyll-Robertson pupil (tertiary syphilis)
Parinaud’s dorsal midbrain syndrome (stroke in adult, pinealoma in children)
Adie’s tonic pupil (post-viral or post-surgery)

(accomodates but does not react)

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30
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Label the Following:

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31
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Diseases associated with

Unilateral central scotoma

Bilateral central scotoma

A

Unilateral central scotoma = optic neuritis / MS

Bilateral = toxic / medication

  • Ethambutol for tuberculosis
  • Thiamine deficiency
  • Leber’s hereditary neuropathy
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32
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leber’s hereditary neuropathy:

Vision problems are worse with _____

A

Smoking

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33
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Difference between pituitary microadenoma and pituitary macroadenoma and why is it imporant?

A
Microadenoma = \<10 mm
macroadenoma = \>10 mm

> 10 mm and you are more likely to have visual impairment

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34
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Patient reports loss of vision only when sketching fine details in sketchbook

what tumor could cause this?
what is it typically associated with?

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Tumor in optic chiasm (i.e. Pineal tumor)

typically associated with bitemporal hemianopsia

when convergin, “blind” temporal fields overlap

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35
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What should this make you worry about?

A

Central lesion (bow-tie atrophy)

36
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What is this showing?

what causes this finding?

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Junctional scotoma
central scotoma in one eye + suprerotemporal defect in other eye

Lesion to anterior part of chiasm
infranasal fibers move up to opposite optic nerve before decussating (Von Wilbran’s knee)

37
Q

What is this showing?

what is it suggestive of?

what should NOT be affected?

A

Homonimous field defect with weird wedge

damage to lateral geniculate nucleus lesion

pupillary light reflex should NOT be affected

38
Q

What is this showing?

What does this suggest?

A

“pie in the sky” defect

right temporal lobe defect

39
Q

What oculomotor finding are suggestive of parietal lobe lesion?

A

Defects in OKN drum

(persuit / saccade)

40
Q

Label the following and the associated Visual fields

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41
Q

Match the following with the visual field defect

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42
Q

What is this?
features (2)

Vision?

What is it seen in (3)

Epidemiology note

A

Morning glory Disk
Funnel-shaped staphyloma
radial vessels

Poor vision (hand motion)

Seen in:
serous retinal detachment
basal encephalocele

signifies vascular development failure

43
Q

What causes this?

A

Incomplete closure of embryonic fissure

Also associated with
visual field defects
relative Afferent pupillary defect RAPD

44
Q

What non-neurologic evaluation should this person get?

A

(optic nerve hypoplasia)

Endocrine evaluation (due to midline defects)

45
Q

Conditions associated with this finding

A

(optic nerve hypoplasia)

Associated with:
midline hemispheric defects

maternal DM, drug, EtOH

46
Q

Retina Versus Visual field

Nasal retina
Temporal retina

A

Nasal retina = Temporal visual field

Temporal retina = nasal visual field

47
Q

What tests could you order to confirm this finding?

A

calcified nodules (drusen)

CT

48
Q

What can cause this?

A

Bilateral lateral compression of chiasm

such as calcivfied internal carotid arteries

49
Q

Function of inferior oblique
inferior rectus

A

Inferior oblique: Elevates and Extorts
inferior rectus: depresses and extorts

“inferiors extort”

50
Q

what structure is responsible for circadian rhythms?

A

Suprachiasmic nucleus (hypothalamus)

51
Q

Terms:

internal ophthalmoplegia
VS
external ophthalmoplegia

A

Internal ophthalmoplegia: loss of parasympathetic innervation to sphincter papillae (results in miadriasis)

External ophthalmoplegia = paralysis of external ocular muscles

52
Q

Cranial nerve Palsies which spare the pupil (3)

A

Inside the I, it is DiM

  • *I_ncomplete _I**schemic lesions
  • *D**iabetes, Myasthenia
53
Q

Ciliary nerves responsible for:

pupil Dilation
pupil constriction

A

Pupil dilation: Long ciliary nerve

Pupillary constriction: Short ciliary nerve

54
Q

Emboli to the Eye and what they signify:

Small, shiny emboli to the eye lodged in retinal arteriole

Gray, globular emboli completely occluding retina

Long, gray emboli

A
  1. Hollenhorst plaque:
    1. signififies prior ischemic damage to eye (treating upstream vessel may prevent further embolization injury)
  2. Calcific emboli: disease heart valves
  3. Platelit-fibrin emboli: endogenous
55
Q

Baby comes in with Infantile spasms and Agenesis of the corpus callosum

Why is this in the “ophthalmology” slide deck?

A

Aicardi syndrome can have chorioretinal Lacunae, look for it.

AICardi
Ageneis of corpus callosum
Infantile spasms
Chorioretinal Lacunae

56
Q

Lens Deviation:

upwards deviation, think _____

downwards, think ____

A

Upwards = marfans

Downwards = Homocystinuria

57
Q

Dancing eyes, dancing feet

What do you look for in child (2)
what do you look for in adult (4)

A

Child

  1. Urine catecholimines due to neuroblastoma

Adult

  1. Anti-Ri due to cancer of (anti-R_epublican _BL_o_G)
    1. Breast
    2. Lung
    3. Gynecologic
58
Q

Slow vertical saccades + square-wave jerks suggest what?

A

Progressive supranuclear palsy

59
Q

Woman with MS-like lesions but bilateral retinal artery occlusions:

What do you think about?
what are it’s features?

A

Susac’s syndrome

Bilateral retinal artery occlusions
Encephalopathy
sensorineural hearing loss

60
Q

Mnemonic for Whipple’s disease

A

My Super Duodenum Smells Like We Can’t Digest Nothing

Classic triad:

  • Myoclonus
  • supranuclear palsy
  • dementia

Other features

  • Steatorrhea
  • Lymphadenopathy
  • Weight loss
  • Convergence/Divergence Nystagmus (pendular nystagmus with simultaneous jaw movements; whipple’s eyes)

Caused by trophermya whippelii (PAS +)

61
Q

Hallucination roundup:

  1. Formed hallucinations
  2. unformed visual hallucinations
  3. real objects look malformed, smaller, or larger
  4. Hypnogogic / hypnopompic
  5. pendular hallucinations
A
  1. Formed hallucinations = Temporal lobe epilepsy
  2. unformed visual hallucinations = occipital lobe epilepsy
  3. Malformed (metamorphosia), smaller (micropsia), larger (macropsia) = migraine
  4. Hypnogogic / hypnopompic = narcolepsy
  5. Pendular = midbrain injury
62
Q

Thalalamic nuclei for vision and hearing

A

L = Light (lateral geniculate nucleus)

M = Music (Medial geniculate nucleus)

63
Q

Dix Hallpike Maneuver:

How do you do it?
What constitutes a “positive” test?

A

How to do it:

  • Start in reclining position with head back roughly 20 degrees
  • Tilt head 45 degrees and bring patient up from reclining to sitting position

Positive result:

  • Upward nystagmus when patient is reclining
  • downward nystagmus when sitting up
64
Q

45- year old man complains of Vertigo, tinnitus and “fullness” in ears

What does he have?
what else would you expect (2)?
What 3 things should he avoid?

A

Menier’s disease u

  • Features
    • Vertigo with “fullness” in ears
    • Tinnitus
    • Low-frequency hearing loss (compared to high frequency associated with loud sound exposure)
    • +/- horizontal nystagmus
  • Risk factors
    • Excessive salt intake
    • head trauma
    • Cigarette / EtoH use
65
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Infant presents with sensorineural hearing loss:

  1. Name 4 congential infections that could cause this
  2. If also has retinitis pigmentosa, what could this be?
  3. If no RP but instead Goiter is present, what could this be?
A
  1. Congential infections causing sensorineural hearing loss
    1. Toxoplasmosis
    2. CMV
    3. Rubella
    4. HSV
  2. Sensorineural hearing loss + RP suggests usher syndrome
  3. Sensorineural hearing loss + goiter suggest Pendred syndrome.
66
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Older man comes in with unsteady gait, incontinence, dementia, and tinnitus.

What does the tinnitus sound like?

A

Venous Hum (pulsatile tinnitus with NPH)

67
Q

What common prophylactic drug can result in subjective tinnitus

A

Aspirin

68
Q

Differe AION versus NAION

A

AION = more likely to have superior altitudinal defects (also seen with glaucoma)

NAION more likely to have inferior

69
Q

Label the following and important elements of each

A
  1. Red = cochlear promontory
    1. site of glomus tympanic paragangliomas
  2. Purple = tympanic segment of facial nerve
  3. Blue = Tegmen tympani
    1. separates cranial and tympanic caveties
  4. Orange = Malleus
    1. one of the ossicles of middle ear
  5. Yellow = Scutum
    1. first bony structure to be eroded by enlarging cholesteatoma
70
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Patient presents with peripheral vertigo

How should their eyes move?

A

Horizontal / rotary nystagmus directed with fast phase away from affected size

71
Q

“horners but with intact sweating”

What study should he get?

A

MRA to check for carotid dissection

(“post-ganglionic horners”)

72
Q

Child is unable to hear soft voices in quiet background, but can hear loud voices in a noisy background?

What does this suggest?

A

Conductive hearing loss

(opposite would be sensorineural)

73
Q

Patient with Vertigo only during severe storms and conductive hearing loss

What is this called?
What does he have?
How would you confirm diagnosis?

A

Superior semicircular canal dehiscence syndrome

Tullio’s phenomenon (sound-induced vertigo)

Confirm with Hennebert sign (pressure-induced vertigo)

74
Q

How would you treat this patient?

A

Iodine / steroids / immunosuppression / referral to endocrinology

(Graves disease, note sparing of lateral rectus, this is characteristic of Graves)

75
Q

Patient pesents with Pigmentary retinopathy. What medications would you worry about if patient has:

Autoimmune conditions (2)
schizophrenia (2)
HIV (1)
Cancer (2)

A
  • Autoimmune conditions
    • Chloroquine
    • Hydroxychloroquine
  • Schizophrenia
    • Thioridazine
    • chlorpromazine
  • HIV
    • Ritonavir
  • Cancer
    • Cisplatin
    • BCNU
76
Q

Best test to localize Horners syndrome and findings

A

Hydroxyamphetamine

Dilates normally after administration: 1st or 2nd order motor neuron disease

77
Q

Patient presents with bilateral fluctuating hearing loss, episodic vertigo, and interstitital keratitis.

How do you treat?

A

Cogan’s syndrome

Treat with high dose steroids followed by immunosuppression if unresolved

78
Q

Patient presents with gaze-evoked and vestibular nystagmus

What is this called?

What can this indicate?

A

Bruns nystagmus

Larege cerebellopontine angle tumor (such as vestibular schwannoma)

79
Q

Factors associated with poorer prognosis in PRES

A

Corpos callosum involvent

80
Q

Define Saccadomania (2)

A
  1. Flutter - random horizonal eye movements (MS)
  2. Opsoclonus”: random, chaotic, multiplanar eye movements
81
Q

Brain regions and associated wye movements

Saccades :
smooth pursuit:

Additional note for optokinetic drumq

A

Saccades: contralateral frontal lobe
pursuit: IL pareito/occipital lobe (ill-defined)

Note on optokinetic drum: Allows you to assess one side of brain for each (smooth pursuit followed by saccade in other direction)

82
Q

Patient presents with opsoclonus. What do you think of it patient is…

A child

An adult

A

Child: neuroblastoma

Adult: paraneoplastic

83
Q

What regions are responsible for:

Saccades
Pursuit

A

Saccades (FAST): contralateral frontal lobe

Pursuit (slow): ipsilateral parietooccipital region (ill-defined)

84
Q

Patient presents with optokinetic nystagmus. what has been damaged?

parietal lobe lesion ipsilateral to where smooth persuit is lost.

A
85
Q

Reaction of eye drops in horners

Aproclonidine
Cocaine
1% hydroxyamphetamine

A
  1. Aproclonidine
    1. affected pupil dilates, affected lid elevates
  2. Cocaine
    1. unaffected eye will dilate
  3. Hydroxyamphetamine
    1. dilation if affected eye if 1st or 2nd order neuron