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Case Reports
. 2023 Mar;270(3):1224-1228.
doi: 10.1007/s00415-022-11548-3. Epub 2022 Dec 28.

A rare case of a wall-eyed bilateral internuclear ophthalmoplegia (WEBINO) syndrome in a patient with cutaneous lupus erythematosus after COVID-19 infection

Massimo Barbagallo  1 , Dominik Straumann  2 , Enrico Binaghi  2 , Anton Schmick  2
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Case Reports

A rare case of a wall-eyed bilateral internuclear ophthalmoplegia (WEBINO) syndrome in a patient with cutaneous lupus erythematosus after COVID-19 infection

Massimo Barbagallo et al. J Neurol. 2023 Mar.
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The authors report no competing interests.

Figures

Fig. 1
Fig. 1
A Diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) B isotopic diffusion weighted imaging (isoDWI) indicating a bilateral diffusion restriction in the area of the paramedian pontine formatio reticularis (medial longitudinal fasciculus (MLF), see arrows)
Fig. 2
Fig. 2
Fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) sequence at the level of brainstem. No corresponding signal alteration in FLAIR sequence
Fig. 3
Fig. 3
Location of the lesion in our patient in the area of the medial longitudinal fasciculus based on “Brainstem pathways for horizontal eye movement: pathologic correlation with MR Imaging” of Bae et al. (created with BioRender.com)
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