This is a test done to see the movements of the eye in all the directions of gaze. The patient is asked to track a pen or the examiner’s finger which is moved in the patient’s visual field. Any ...

A 28-year-old woman presented to the Lahey Eye Clinic reporting a 1-week history of constant binocular, horizontal diplopia. In addition to the diplopia, she described pain with extraocular movements ...

Extraocular muscle enlargement (EOME) is most commonly associated with thyroid eye disease, but there are other causes. We report our outcomes of investigating and managing non-thyroid-related EOME ...

A 12-year-old girl was referred to Tufts Medical Center after 2 weeks of worsening left upper eyelid pain and left periorbital erythema plus edema. Two weeks before presentation, the patient’s mother ...

Three closely coordinated laboratories have studied control of extraocular movements in patients, headed by Dr. John Stahl, and Dr. Louis Dell’Osso. These laboratories have attained nationally and ...

This patient has Marcus Gunn jaw-winking syndrome. He does not have any extraocular movement deficits, which would be seen in Duane syndrome (abduction deficit), third nerve palsy (adduction and ...

DISTURBANCES of eye movements frequently confront the physician with puzzling diagnostic problems. First of all, the examiner must determine whether the abnormal function of eye muscles is the result ...

A 66-year-old man had two scleral buckling surgeries for a right rhegmatogenous retinal detachment 10 years previously. He was referred for increasing binocular diplopia over the past 12 months. On ...

A unique type of muscle fiber found in the extraocular muscles has been shown to be resistant against the disease ALS, and has been shown to even increase in proportion to compensate when other types ...