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An increase of intracranial pressure (ICP) can result in a wide variety of neuroophthalmological and neuro-otological findings (Leigh and Zee 1991). One has to distinguish between signs due to the actual lesion causing the raised intracranial pressure, such as brainstem or pineal tumors, cerebellar infarcts or other structural lesions causing defects in the neuronal substrate of the vestibulo-oculomotor system and neuro-otological findings due to the raised intracranial pressure proper. Sometimes this distinction can be difficult. Common neuro-otological signs of increased ICP are ocular nerve palsies, downbeat nystagmus, the so-called pretectal syndrome, dysequilibrium, positional nystagmus, and, rarely, ocular flutter and opsoclonus.
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Fetter, M. (1996). Neuro-otological findings in raised intracranial pressure. In: Ernst, A., Marchbanks, R., Samii, M. (eds) Intracranial and Intralabyrinthine Fluids. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80163-1_27
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