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ocular bobbing
Etiology:
- thiamine deficiency, Wernicke encephalopathy* [3]
* ocular bobbing on primary gaze, but not horizontal gaze [3]
Pathology:
- not necessarily associated with pontine pathology
Clinical manifestations:
- abrupt, spontaneous downward jerks of the eyes with slow return to midposition
- occurs in association with paralysis of spontaneous & reflex horizontal eye movements
General
boobbing
sign/symptom
References
- Bosch EP, Kennedy SS, Aschenbrener CA.
Ocular bobbing: the myth of its localizing value.
Neurology. 1975 Oct;25(10):949-53. doi: 10.1212/wnl.25.10.949.
PMID: 1237105
- Hameroff SB, Garcia-Mullin R, Eckholdt J.
Ocular bobbing.
Arch Ophthalmol. 1969 Dec;82(6):774-80..
PMID: 5355265
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaophthalmology/fullarticle/629727
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