Tonic pupil

Authors evaluated the group of 21 patients (22 eyes) with pupillotonia. There were 2 postraumatic pupillotonias, 1 bilateral pupillotonia with systematic polyneuropathy in alcoholism, 6 Adie's pupillotonias and 9 postviral pupillotonias. In 4 one-sided pupillotonias there were finded no traumat...

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Published in:	Česká a slovenská oftalmologie Vol. 55; no. 1; p. 24
Main Authors:	Cmelo, J, Cernák, M
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	Slovak
Published:	Czech Republic 01-01-1999
Subjects:	Adolescent Adult Humans Tonic Pupil - diagnosis Tonic Pupil - etiology Tonic Pupil - therapy
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Summary:	Authors evaluated the group of 21 patients (22 eyes) with pupillotonia. There were 2 postraumatic pupillotonias, 1 bilateral pupillotonia with systematic polyneuropathy in alcoholism, 6 Adie's pupillotonias and 9 postviral pupillotonias. In 4 one-sided pupillotonias there were finded no traumatic, viral or neurological cause. 2 patients (2 eyes) with traumatic cause, 2 patients with Adie's pupillotonia and 9 patients with viral cause had indicated the marked subjective difficulties in the eyes with pupillotonia--blurred vision, cephalea. After local application of Pilocarpin in 0.05%-0.1% concentration, these patients were indicating the marked improvement of their subjective troubles of the eyes.
ISSN:	1211-9059