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See-saw nystagmus is an uncommon but highly characteristic eye movement disorder comprising intorsion and elevation of one eye, with synchronous extorsion and depression of the other. It generally has a pendular waveform and is due to a midline, extrinsic, suprasellar mass lesion compressing or invading the brainstem bilaterally at the meso-diencephalic junction. This report deals with the clinical and MRI findings in three patients (and binocular three-dimensional quantitative oculographic findings in one patient) with a jerk waveform see-saw nystagmus due in each case to a unilateral meso-diencephalic lesion. In each patient the torsional component of the nystagmus fast phases rotated the upper poles of the eyes toward the side of the lesion. Jerk see-saw nystagmus can be clinically indistinguishable from pendular see-saw nystagmus and from the torsional-vertical nystagmus which occurs with medullary lesions. We propose that jerk see-saw nystagmus is due to unilateral inactivation of the torsional eye-velocity integrator, thought to be in the interstitial nucleus of Cajal, with sparing of the torsional fast-phase generator, thought to be in the adjacent rostral interstitial nucleus of the medial longitudinal fasciculus.
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PMID:Jerk-waveform see-saw nystagmus due to unilateral meso-diencephalic lesion. 792 66

See-saw nystagmus is an uncommon but characteristic kind of nystagmus. Typically there is intorsion and elevation of one eye and simultaneous extorsion and depression of the other eye. The nystagmus can be of pendular-waveform or jerk-waveform. The pendular-waveform see-saw nystagmus is commonly due to a midline meso-diencephalic, bilaterally compressing mass. The jerk-waveform see-saw nystagmus is mostly due to a unilateral lesion in the meso-diencephalic junction. For explanation, a current theory assumes a unilateral lesion of the interstitial nucleus of Cajal sparing the rostral interstitial nucleus of the medial longitudinal fascicle. Another concept suggests a lesion of the vertical vestibulo-ocular-reflex. We report two patients with jerk-waveform see-saw nystagmus. In both patients an internuclear ophthalmoplegia was found additionally. The origin was a unilateral brainstem infarction in both cases. We explain the symptomatology of see-saw nystagmus and discuss the actual theories of its origin.
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PMID:[See-saw nystagmus. Clinical aspects, diagnosis, pathophysiology: observations in 2 patients]. 876 3