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Arch Ophthalmol. 1998;116:798.

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THE MANAGEMENT of neurologically isolated, nontraumatic oculomotor nerve palsy is a challenge in the wise deployment of expensive and potentially harmful diagnostic tools.

Most cases are caused by ischemia of the nerve and do not require any diagnostic tests.^1-5 Others are caused by inflammatory or neoplastic meningitis that can be diagnosed with a combination of magnetic resonance imaging and lumbar puncture. But some patients harbor a cerebral aneurysm that could kill them within days and for which timely treatment is curative. In the past, the diagnosis of aneurysm has depended entirely on catheter cerebral angiography, a test that maims or kills in about 1% to 2% of cases, and perhaps more among the elderly and those with ample arteriosclerotic risk factors.⁶

A recent alternative is magnetic resonance angiography (MRA), a variant of magnetic resonance imaging that highlights blood vessels. Entirely free of complications, it detects more than 95% of cerebral . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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