Oculomotor nerve palsy: clinical features
Written and reviewed by Dr Ibrahim Imam, Consultant Neurologist. Last reviewed .
Oculomotor nerve palsy: clinical features. The extraocular muscles: except the lateral rectus and superior oblique. Fully referenced neurology checklist.
Muscles innervated by the oculomotor nerve
- The extraocular muscles: except the lateral rectus and superior oblique
- The levator palpebrae superioris: the eyelid elevators
- The ciliary muscles: the iris constrictors
Clinical features
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Features of aberrant regeneration of the oculomotor nerve
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Synonyms for oculomotor nerve
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Synonyms for aberrant regeneration
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References
- El Ouali O, Messouak O, Belahsen MF. Midbrain hematoma presenting with isolated bilateral palsy of the third cranial nerve in a Moroccan man: a case report. J Med Case Rep 2012; 6:197.
- Mrabet H, Bahri Ben Mrad F, Touibi S, Mrabet A. Presentation of a cavernous angioma with an oculomotor nuclear syndrome: a case report. Rev Neurol (Paris) 2006; 162:238-239.
- Good EF. Ptosis as the sole manifestation of compression of the oculomotor nerve by an aneurysm of the posterior communicating artery. J Clin Neuroophthalmol 1990; 10:59-61.
- Ajtai B, Fine EJ, Lincoff N. Pupil-sparing, painless compression of the oculomotor nerve by expanding basilar artery aneurysm: a case of ocular pseudomyasthenia. Arch Neurol 2004; 61:1448-1450.
- Czarnecki JS, Thompson HS. The iris sphincter in aberrant regeneration of the third nerve. Arch Ophthalmol 1978; 96:1606-1610.
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