Oculomotor nerve palsy: clinical features

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

Features of aberrant regeneration of the oculomotor nerve

Synonyms for oculomotor nerve

Synonyms for aberrant regeneration

References

1. 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.
2. 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. 
3. 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.
4. 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. 
5. Czarnecki JS, Thompson HS. The iris sphincter in aberrant regeneration of the third nerve. Arch Ophthalmol 1978; 96:1606-1610.
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• Oculomotor nerve palsy: nuclear syndromes
• Oculomotor nerve palsy: management