Ophthalmology · Ophthalmology / Strabismus and neuro-ophthalmology
Parinaud syndrome
also: Dorsal midbrain syndrome; Sylvian aqueduct syndrome
Vertical gaze palsy with convergence-retraction nystagmus.
- Specialty
- Ophthalmology
- Subspecialty
- Ophthalmology / Strabismus and neuro-ophthalmology
- Sex & age distribution
- Male: affected; Female: affected; Children: yes, with pineal tumors and hydrocephalus
- Gene(s) involved
- None recorded
- Alternative names & eponyms
- Dorsal midbrain syndrome; Sylvian aqueduct syndrome
Etiology & mechanism
Lesion of the dorsal midbrain, often pineal tumor or hydrocephalus.
Gene(s) involved (0)
No gene recorded for this syndrome.
Symptoms & signs (5)
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Shares symptoms with
3 shared
Dorsal midbrain syndrome
eyelid retraction, light-near dissociation, upgaze palsy
1 shared
Adie tonic pupil syndrome
light-near dissociation
1 shared
Argyll Robertson pupil syndrome
light-near dissociation
1 shared
Cryopyrin-associated periodic syndrome
papilledema
1 shared
Holmes–Adie syndrome
light-near dissociation
1 shared
Neonatal-onset multisystem inflammatory disease with neurological involvement
papilledema
1 shared
POEMS syndrome
papilledema
1 shared
Pourfour du Petit syndrome
eyelid retraction
1 shared
Pseudotumor cerebri syndrome
papilledema
Shares genes with
None.
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