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The Ewha Medical Journal
Ewha Womans University School of Medicine

Ewha Med J 1988; 11(2):79-83

pISSN: 1598-7450

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12771/emj.1988.11.2.79

Original Article

A Clinical Study of Diplopia Due to Neurologic Disorder

Kyoung-Kyu Choi
Corresponding author: Kyoung Gyu Choi. Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Korea.

Copyright ⓒ 1988. Ewha Womans University School of Medicine. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Published Online: Jul 24, 2015

Abstract

Diplopia may result from a variety of causes. The cases reported here illustrate several etiologies, progneses, and diagnostic investigation. The most common ocular motor palsy was the abducens nerve palsy(48%), and the others were oculomotor nerve palsy(24%), convergence palsy(16%), trochlear nerve palsy(8%) and divergence palsy (4%) in this order. The most common cause of ocular movement palsy was vascular disorder (44%), and the other causes were trauma(16%), aneurysm(8%), neoplasm(4%) and hydrocephalus(4%). The ocular motor palsy due to vascular disorder was best prognosis.