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Superior oblique myokymia
  1. Ivan Adamec1,
  2. Mario Habek1,2
  1. 1Department of Neurology, Referral Center for Autonomic Nervous System Disorders, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
  2. 2School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
  1. Correspondence to Dr Mario Habek, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Zagreb HR-10000, Croatia; mhabek{at}mef.hr

https://doi.org/10.1136/practneurol-2018-001967

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    A 33-year-old man, previously healthy, presented with a feeling of his right eyeball fluttering and oscillopsia lasting days. He had no headache, vertigo or gait problems. On neurological examination, there was a clockwise torsional nystagmus of the right eye with no nystagmus of the left eye (Figures 1,2; online supplementary videos 1 and 2). There was no other eye movement or other cranial nerve abnormalities, and remaining neurological examination was normal. …

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    • Contributors Study concept and design: IA, MH. Acquisition of data: IA, MH. Analysis and interpretation of data: IA, MH. Drafting of the manuscript: IA. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: IA, MH. Administrative, technical and material support: IA, MH.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned. Externally peer reviewed by Christian Lueck, Canberra, Australia.

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