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Ptosis and Supranuclear Downgaze Paralysis Neurol 39:385-389, Buttner-Ennever,J.A.,et al, 1989 See this aricle in Pubmed Article Abstract A patient developed the unusual combination of a supranuclear downward gaze paralysis and bilateral ptosis.It was caused by a single midbrain glioma.Other ocular motor functions were intact.The neuropathologic examination showed a tumor growing mainly around the third ventricle and the aqueduct.The findings agree with recent experimental evidence that a network of neural elements involved in eyelid control lies in the supraoculomotor area immediately dorsal to the oculomotor nucleus.

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