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Horizontal Gaze Palsy

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Signs in Leigh and Zee’s Case<br />

The patient was unable to move her eyes to the right<br />

past the midline using either saccadic or pursuit eye<br />

movements<br />

Head rotation to the left, however, drove the eyes past<br />

the midline, but the right eye abducted incompletely<br />

Vergence movements induced the left eye to cross the<br />

midline<br />

Vertical eye movements were normal<br />

<strong>Gaze</strong> evoked nystagmus was present on looking to the<br />

left, with slow phases toward the midline<br />

The patient developed a fascicular sixth nerve palsy

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