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Eye movement abnormalities are associated with brainstem atrophy in Wilson disease.

Jaromír HanuškaPetr DušekJan RuszOlga UlmanováAndrea BurgetováEvžen Růžička
Published in: Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (2020)
We showed impairments of ocular saccades such as prolonged latencies, hypometry, and increased error rate in antisaccades. The strong association between prolonged latencies of prosaccades and the brainstem atrophy suggests that VOG might serve as a sensitive electrophysiological marker of brainstem dysfunction in WD.
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