Miller Fisher syndrome: etiological significance of serial blink reflexes and MRI study

Electromyogr Clin Neurophysiol. 1992 Jun;32(6):317-9.

Abstract

We studied a patient with Miller Fisher syndrome using a serial MRI and electrophysiological procedures. There were peripheral nerve pathology and CNS dysfunction. In particular, MRI showed a lesion at the level of the 3rd nerve nucleus.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Ataxia / pathology
  • Ataxia / physiopathology*
  • Blinking / physiology*
  • Brain / pathology
  • Brain / physiopathology
  • Child
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Ophthalmoplegia / pathology
  • Ophthalmoplegia / physiopathology*
  • Reflex, Abnormal / physiology*
  • Syndrome