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The Nerve of That Muscle! New Understanding of Innervation of the Extraocular Muscles

In Ocular Motility and Strabismus

Joseph L Demer1,2 MD, PhD; Robert A Clark1 MD; Yoward Ying3 MD, PhD Jules Stein Eye Institute1 and Department of Neurology2, University of California, Los Angeles

Wilmer Eye Institute3, Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, MD

Relevance: Ophthalmologists commonly evaluate and treat incomitant strabismus attributed to lesions of motor nerves innervating extraocular muscles (EOMs). Recent developments in understanding of peripheral EOM innervation impact diagnosis and treatment of strabismus. Delivery Format(s): Didactic lecture with open Q/A forum. Content: The workshop will review recent genetic, histological, and functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies of congenital forms of strabismus that are primary cranial neuropathies: Duane syndrome, congenital fibrosis of the extraocular muscles, congenital oculomotor palsy, and Möebius syndrome. These findings will be contrasted with behavioral, histological, and MRI studies of acquired superior oblique (SO) palsy in a primate model. Evidence for non-anneurysmal neurovascular compression as a cause of paralytic strabismus also will be reviewed. The newly-discovered anatomic basis of compartmental innervation of rectus EOMs will be correlated with functional MRI during head tilt testing in SO palsy, as well as with clinical evidence for regional of atrophy of individual EOMs. Practical recommendations for strabismus diagnosis and surgery will be discussed. Learning Objective(s): At the conclusion of this presentation, attendees will be able to: understand most forms of special congenital strabismus as specific disorders of motor cranial nerve development and targeting; incorporate clinical imaging into their practices for diagnosis of neuropathic strabismus; expand the differential diagnosis of cyclovertical strabismus beyond SO palsy; and appreciate the potential contribution of selective compartmental control of rectus EOMs to management of strabismus. Peripheral innervation to EOMs is much more complex than you learned in medical school, and neural control of EOM function is more nuanced. Progress in understanding EOM innervation is making it easier to diagnose and treat strabismus. Proprietary Interest: None. Grant Support: USPHS, National Institutes of Health grants EY01849, EY019347, EY08313, EY13583, EY00331, and DC005211. Research to Prevent Blindness. FDA Disclosure: Investigational surface coils not approved by FDA were used for magnetic resonance imaging.

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Pre-Test

1. What happened to a denervated extraocular muscle, and how long does this take?

2. How many layers does each extraocular muscle have?

3. How many functional compartments does each horizontal rectus muscle have?

4. Does the lateral rectus muscle have torsional and vertical actions?

5. Does binocular visual experience reduce or increase strabismus due to acute superior oblique

palsy?

6. Does Listing’s Law depend upon function of the superior oblique muscle?

7. What do hereditary Duane syndrome and congenital fibrosis of the extraocular muscles have

in common?

8. True or false? Congenital fibrosis of the extraocular muscles is a primary myopathy of the eye

muscles.


The Old and New in Ocular Motor Neuroanatomy

Joseph L. Demer, M.D., Ph.D.

I. Bilaminar extraocular muscles (EOMs)

a. Orbital layer – translates pulleys

i. Singly-innervated fibers

ii. Multiply-innervated fibers

b. Global layer – rotates the globe via tendon insertion on the sclera

i. Multiply-innervated fibers – small, non-twitch

ii. Singly-innervated fibers – three types of twitch fibers

II. Oculomotor Nerve

a. Cell bodies near the aqueduct in the midbrain.

i. Peripheral motor neurons innervate multiply-innervated muscle fibers

ii. Central motor neurons innervate singly-innervated muscle fibers.

b. Nerve divides into two divisions deep to the orbit.

i. Superior division – superior rectus and levator

ii. Inferior division – medial rectus, inferior rectus, inferior oblique, ciliary body, and

sphincter of pupil.

c. Inferior rectus – multiple bifurcations and reanastamoses on global surface of muscle

before entering and arborizing anteriorly. Significant mixing of territories innervated by

principle motor nerve trunks.

d. Inferior oblique – compact nerve parallels lateral surface of inferior rectus, then turns

sharply to enter inferior oblique muscle’s inferolateral surface at the pulley. Cell bodies

of ciliary ganglion may be scattered along the motor nerve.


e. Medial rectus – large, relatively anterior motor branch crosses orbit from temporal to

nasal, bifurcates into non-overlapping superior and inferior divisions that enter the

global surface of the muscle and bifurcate further as then course anteriorly. The two

divisions innervate separate functional compartments.

f. Superior rectus – multiple bifurcations before entering the global surface of the muscle

in the deep orbit. Bifurcations are highly mixed, without compartmentalization.

III. Trochlear nerve

a. Cell bodies near the aqueduct in the midbrain, just caudal to oculomotor nucleus.

b. Mostly, but not totally, decussated. At least 3% ipsilateral projection.

c. Motor nerve enters the superior surface of the superior oblique muscle and bifurcates

within the muscle as branches course anteriorly.

IV. Abducens nerve

a. Cell bodies in the ipsilateral pons

b. Motor nerve divides into two approximately-equal, distinct trunks somewhere between

the brainstem and the lateral rectus muscle.

c. Inferior trunk enters the muscle 0.4 – 2.4 mm more posteriorly than the anterior trunk,

with each trunk bifurcating repeatedly before entering the muscle, and further bifurcating

within the muscle as progeny course anteriorly.

d. The two divisions innervate separate functional compartments, comprised of separate

sets of muscle fibers.

V. Non-classical Nerves

a. Small nerves enter the rectus muscles from the orbital surface near the orbital apex

b. Some small nerves run among adjacent rectus muscles.

c. Some of these nerves form a network interconnecting 5 – 10 muscle spindles in the

orbital layer of each muscle, which are believed to be proprioceptive organs.


VI. Autonomic Nerves

a. Smooth muscle targets

i. Muscular blood vessels

ii. Muller’s smooth muscle

iii. Pulley smooth muscle

iv. Scleral myofibroblasts

v. Choroidal smooth muscle

b. Source ganglia

i. Pterygopalatine ganglion (and scattered elsewhere in the orbit) – nitric oxide

neurotransiter

ii. Ciliary ganglion – acetycholine neurotransmitter. Irregular structure between optic

nerve and lateral rectus muscle in deep orbit, with scattered ganglion cells on the

sclera, along the inferior oblique nerve, and elsewhere in the orbit.

iii. Superior cervical ganglion – norepinephrine neurotransmitter, fibers travel in a

plexus along the carotid artery and then along smaller arteries into the orbit.

VII. Proprioceptive Nerves

a. Palisade endings

i. Innervated myotendonous cylinders at termination of each multiply-innervated

global layer fiber in rectus EOMs.

ii. Formerly believed to be proprioceptive…

iii. But, axons use motor neurotransmitter acetylcholine and have other motor

features.

iv. Axons run anteriorly before turning posteriorly to run into the deep EOM.

v. Nearby cholinergic axons terminate directly on tendon fibers. Function of these

strange structures is mysterious.


vi. It is unclear if there are any proprioceptive nerves or organs in the rectus muscle

tendons.

b. Spindles

i. Comprised of several orbital layer myofibers and nerve terminal(s) within a thin

capsule. Very similar to proprioceptive spindles in skeletal muscles.

ii. Only a handful of spindles per muscle.

iii. Innervated by a separate network of myelinated nerves originating in the orbital

apex and interconnecting all the spindles in the same muscle.

References

1. Demer, J. L., Poukens, V., Miller, J. M., and Micevych, P. Innervation of extraocular pulley smooth muscle in monkey and human. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 38:1774-1785, 1997.

2. Demer, J. L. Extraocular muscles. In: Jaeger, E. A. and Tasman, P. R., eds. Duane’s Ophthalmology. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2009, vol. 1, ch. 1, ed. 2 (electronic publication).

3. Peng, M., Poukens, V., da Silva Costa, R. M., Yoo, L., Tychsen, L., and Demer, J. L. Compartmentalized innervation of primate lateral rectus muscle. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 51:4612-4617, 2010.

4. de Silva Costa, R. M., Kung, J., Poukens, V., Yoo, L., Tychsen, L., and Demer, J. L. Intramuscular innervation of primate extraocular muscles: Unique compartmentalization in horizontal recti. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. (in press), 2011. E-pub ahead of press. http://www.iovs.org/cgi/content/abstract/iovs.10-6651v1?papetoc

5. Lienbacher K, Mustari M, Ying HS, Büttner-Ennever JA, Horn AK. Do palisade endings in extraocular muscles arise from neurons in the motor nuclei? Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2011 Jan 12. [Epub ahead of print]

6. Ying HS, Fackelmann K, Messoudi A, Tang XF, Büttner-Ennever JA, Horn AK. Neuronal signalling expression profiles of motoneurons supplying multiply or singly innervated extraocular muscle fibres in monkey. Prog Brain Res. 2008;171:13-6.

http://www.iovs.org/cgi/content/abstract/iovs.10-6651v1?papetoc

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Functional Evidence for Compartmentalization

In Horizontal Rectus Extraocular Muscles

Robert A. Clark, M.D.

I. Bifid Abducens Innervation

A. Potential to improve control of eye movement

1. Offset imbalances during gaze changes

2. Induce torsion during head tilts

B. Measurement of Compartmental Contractility

1. Direct measurement invasive and technically difficult

2. MRI provides imaging markers for contractility

a. Change in maximum EOM cross-sectional area

b. Shift of EOM volume posteriorly

II. Lateral Rectus in Ocular Counter-Rolling

A. Eight normal subjects

B. Nine subjects with chronic unilateral SO palsies

C. Imaged in 90° left and right head tilt

1. Verified control of horizontal gaze position

2. Fixated with “up” (extorted) eye in both gaze positions

D. Image Analysis

1. Rotate each image plane to bring the LR to scanner vertical

2. Cropped each image to include only the LR belly

3. Split the LR belly in half vertically in scanner coordinates

4. Measure the cross-sectional area of the superior and inferior halves


5. Multiply cross-sectional areas by slice thickness to calculate volume

E. Results

1. LR Superior Compartment – Up (Extorted) versus Down (Intorted)

a. No significant change in max cross-sectional areas for any group

b. No significant changes in volumes for any group

2. LR Inferior Compartment– Up (Extorted) versus Down (Intorted)

a. Highly significant change in normal and SO palsy contralesional max cross-sectional

areas

b. Highly significant change in normal and SO palsy contralesional volumes

c. No significant change in either value for SO palsy ipsilesional orbits

F. Conclusions

1. MRI detects statistically significant increased contractility of the inferior LR compartment

during excyclotorsion

2. The difference in LR compartmental contractility is blunted in the orbit with SO palsy

3. The LR superior and inferior compartments appear to have independent control of

innervation

III. Theoretical Implications

A. Orbit® predicts compartmental LR contraction can create about 6 degrees of excyclotorsion

B. Force Vector Analysis

1. Equal Compartmental Contractility – No net torsion (only abducting force)

2. Unequal Compartmental Contractility – Approximately 20% of the inferior LR

compartmental force is vertical and/or torsional

C. Diminished LR Compartmental Contractility in SO Palsy

1. Paretic orbit has excess excyclotorsion

2. Reduced LR inferior compartment contractility should reduce excyclotorsion


3. Change in behavior implies active neurological control

D. Modified Surgical Approaches to Torsion

1. Split LR surgery might be used to correct torsion

2. Surgery to restore a displaced LR path should reduce abnormal torsion

E. Future Investigation

1. Differential LR contractility in other positions of gaze?

2. Effect of LR surgery on torsion?

3. Differential innervation and contractility for other extraocular muscles?

Reference

Demer, J. L., and Clark, R. A. Compartmental function of horizontal rectus extraocular muscles (EOMs) during head tilt: Impaired lateral rectus (LR) inferior zone contractility in superior oblique (SO) palsy. ARVO Abstracts, (in press), 2011.


Primate Model of Experimental Superior Oblique Palsy

Howard Ying, M.D., Ph.D.

I. Problems with human studies:

A. Etiology of vertical misalignment may not be clear (possible assignment error)

B. Repeated measurements and perturbations are limited

C. Histology is rarely possible

II. Intracranial trochlear nerve transection in the cavernous sinus (Lewis et al., 1994)

A. Protocol: Acute IV nerve transection, normal eye viewing for 4 weeks, binocular viewing

through neutralizing base-down prism for 2 weeks, monocular viewing for 1 week,

ipsilateral intracranial V1 section, repeat data collection

B. Eye Movement Methods: single implanted scleral search coil in the frontal plane.

C. Results:

1. Vertical strabismus was worse in down gaze,

2. Comitancy but not average deviation improved with binocular viewing, and

3. After deafferentation, comitancy worsened and pulse-pulse ratio increased due to

increase in paretic eye pulse.

D. Conclusions: Error signal to regulate long-term ocular alignment may be derived from a

mismatch between efference copy and proprioceptive afference.

III. Intracranial trochlear nerve transection in the cavernous sinus (Lewis et al., 1999)

A. Protocol: Acute IV nerve transection, normal eye viewing for 4 weeks, binocular viewing

for 2 weeks, binocular viewing through disparity-reducing base-down prism for 2 weeks,

paretic eye viewing for 2 weeks, ipsilateral intracranial V1 section, repeat data

collection.


B. Eye Movement Methods: single implanted scleral search coil in the frontal plane.

C. Results:

1. Post-saccadic drift in the paretic eye was suppressed during binocular viewing

even when there was no fusion,

2. During paretic eye viewing, post-saccadic drift was suppressed in the paretic eye

and induced in the normal eye,

3. After deafferentation, change in paretic eye post-saccadic drift was variable

without changing post-saccadic drift in the normal eye

D. Conclusions: Post-saccadic drift appeared to occur disconjugately, did not require

binocularity, did not minimize retinal slip, and did not require proprioceptive afference in

the paretic eye.

IV. Intracranial trochlear nerve transection in the middle cranial fossa – changes in static eye

alignment (Shan et al., 2007a)

A. Protocol: Acute IV nerve transection, normal eye viewing for 6-9 days, binocular

viewing for 4 weeks,

B. Eye Movement Methods: dual implanted scleral search coil in the frontal and

superotemporal planes, measurement in 9 positions of gaze at ± 20º eccentricity.

C. Results:

1. Vertical strabismus was worst in down gaze and adduction, while torsion

strabismus was worst in down gaze and abduction

2. During the first 5-6 days, comitancy and average deviation improved, then during

the next 3-4 weeks, comitancy was variable while average strabismus worsened

with the head straight or tilted

3. Changes in vertical and torsion gradients were nearly constant, with mild

horizontal dependence across the visual field, and


4. Vertical and torsional deviations from experimental SOP in monkeys correlates

well with clinical SOP in humans.

D. Conclusions: Improvement in alignment during the first 5-6 days after lesion while

viewing monocularly suggests a role for proprioception.

V. Intracranial trochlear nerve transection in the middle cranial fossa – changes in dynamic

properties during vertical saccades (Shan et al., 2007b)




superotemporal planes, measurement of vertical saccade pulse, velocity, drift, and

intrasaccadic blips from each of the 9 positions of gaze at ± 20º eccentricity.

C. Results:

1. Vertical saccade amplitude was smaller for the paretic eye (PE), especially

downward saccades

2. Vertical drift reduced retinal image disparity except for downward saccades with

the PE in abduction

3. Peak dynamic blip (intrasaccadic torsion) increased more for upward saccades

(relative extorsion) with the PE in abduction

4. postsaccadic torsional drift increased more for downward saccades (relative

intorsion) with the PE in adduction

5. Peak velocity-amplitude relationship in vertical saccades was little affected, but

the ratio between the peak velocity of the two eyes was a consistent indicator of

the palsy

D. Conclusions: Rhesus monkeys with acute acquired SOP show characteristic changes

in vertical and torsional movements during and immediately after vertical saccades that


help define the ocular motor signature of denervation of the SO muscle. These dynamic

changes were largely unrelated to the changes in static alignment over time, suggesting

that static and dynamic disturbances in SOP are influenced by separate central

mechanisms.

VI. Intracranial trochlear nerve transection in the middle cranial fossa – relationship to Listing’s

Law (Tian et al., 2007)




superotemporal planes, measurement during fixation in a 40º x 40º grid.

C. Results:

1. In the paretic eye, Listing’s plane (LP) rotated 25° temporally,

2. LP thickness (torsional standard deviation) increased only by 0.08° to 0.13° after

SOP, and

3. LP thickness during saccades did not change after SOP.

D. Conclusions: Acute SOP in rhesus monkeys leads to a temporal rotation of LP. This is

consistent with a relatively increased extorsion in down gaze due to a loss of normal

intorsion by the superior oblique muscle. The SD of torsion increased by only a small

amount, implying that the validity of Listing’s Law is not affected much by complete

SOP, despite the large change in the orientation of LP.

VII. Intracranial trochlear nerve transection in the middle cranial fossa – changes in torsional

optokinetic nystagmus (Shan et al., 2008)


viewing for 4-8 months, denervation of ipsilateral inferior oblique muscle, binocular


viewing for 4 months, contralateral inferior rectus recession, binocular viewing for 4

months,


superotemporal planes, measurement during viewing a 60º rotating wheel with 20 radial

segments, rotating 40 º/s clockwise (CW) or counterclockwise (CCW).

C. Results:

1. After SOP, torsional quick and slow phases were smaller and slower but

vertical motion was increased for the paretic eye for both CW and CCW

rotations,

2. After corrective inferior oblique surgery, both of these effects were even greater

D. .Conclusions: Torsion OKN reflects alterations in the dynamic properties of the

extraocular muscles involved in eye torsion, provides information complementary to that

provided by alignment (Bielschowsky head-tilt test), and potentially can help distinguish

among different causes of vertical ocular misalignment.

VIII. Intracranial trochlear nerve transection in the middle cranial fossa – effects of viewing

conditions on ocular alignment and modeling of the ocular motor plant (Quaia et al., 2008)




superotemporal planes, measurement in 9 positions of gaze at ± 20º eccentricity, a

SQUINT-based model was adapted to monkey geometry.

C. Results:

1. The model reproduced the observed acute deficit induced by SOP only after

abandoning Robinson's symmetric simplification of the reciprocal innervation

relationship within pairs of agonist-antagonist muscles (Sherrington’s Law).


2. Physiologic variability in orbital geometry has a large impact on model predictions

for SOP deficits.

D. Conclusions: The validity of Sherrington’s Law after SOP should be examined.

IX. Intracranial trochlear nerve transection in the middle cranial fossa – effect on vertical pursuit

(Tian et al., 2008)




superotemporal planes, measurement of vertical pursuit movements along the midline

using triangular-wave (20°/s, ±20°) or step-ramp (20°/s) stimuli at a distance of 66 cm.

C. Results:

1. During the early post-lesion period, before binocular viewing was allowed,

a. pursuit velocity of the paretic eye during upward or downward triangular-

wave tracking was lower than that of the normal eye

b. When the viewing eye crossed straight ahead, the changes in pursuit

velocity conjugacy were similar for upward and downward tracking.

2. After habitual binocular viewing was allowed, downward pursuit velocity trended

lower than upward pursuit velocity that was less dramatic during the open-loop

period of step-ramp tracking than during triangular-wave tracking.

D. Conclusions: After acute acquired SOP, there were deficits for both upward and

downward tracking that appeared to be influenced by the habitual viewing condition

(monocular versus binocular).

X. Overall conclusions


A. Rhesus monkeys with acute acquired SOP show characteristic changes in alignment,

smooth pursuit, saccades, and torsion OKN response that help define the ocular motor

signature of denervation of the SO muscle.

B. Changes in dynamic characteristics: pulse-pulse ratios, post-saccadic drift, dynamic

torsion, etc. were largely unrelated to the changes in static alignment over time,

suggesting that static and dynamic disturbances in SOP are influenced by separate

central mechanisms.

C. Early improvement in alignment during the first 5-6 days after the lesion while viewing

monocularly suggests a role for proprioception rather than retinal image disparity or

efference copy.

D. Error signal to regulate long-term ocular alignment is still mysterious.

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3. Shan, X, Tian, J, Ying, H, Quaia, C, Optican, L, Walker, M, Tamargo, R., Zee, D.S. (2007) Acute SOP in monkeys: I. Changes in Static Eye Alignment. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 48(6):2602-2611.

4. Shan, X, Tian, J, Ying, H, Quaia, C, Optican, L, Walker, M, Tamargo, R., Zee, D.S. (2007) Acute SOP in monkeys: II. Changes in Dynamic Properties during Vertical Saccades. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 48(6):2612-2620.

5. Tian J, Shan X, Zee DS, Ying H, Tamargo RJ, Quaia C, Optican LM, Walker MF. (2007) Acute superior oblique palsy in monkeys: III. Relationship to Listing's Law. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci.; 48(6):2621-2625.

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7. Quaia C, Shan X, Tian J, Ying H, Optican LM, Walker M, Tamargo R, Zee DS. (2008) Acute superior oblique palsy in the monkey: effects of viewing conditions on ocular alignment and modelling of the ocular motor plant. Prog Brain Res. 171:47-52.

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Microanatomy of Superior Oblique Palsy in Primate


I. MRI confirms of neurogenic atrophy of superior oblique (SO) muscle

a. Cross section of deep muscle belly is markedly reduced

b. Muscle mass shifts anteriorly so anterior cross sections may be increased.

c. Although maximum cross section is reduced, overall SO muscle volume is preserved.

This implies that the denervated SO becomes elongated, correlating with the “floppy

tendon” phenomenon.

II. Histology

a. No evidence of trochlear nerve regeneration up to 15 months post-neurectomy

b. Trochlear nerve fibrosis

c. Residual muscle mass shifts anteriorly, supporting elongation.

d. Neurogenic atrophy complete within five weeks post-neurectomy.

1. Severe atrophy of global layer fibers

2. Little atrophy of orbital layer fibers

3. A few nerves run from orbital layer into global layer

4. Occasional giant fibers in global layer might reflect re-innervation (autonomic,

sensory, or non-classical?). These fibers run nearly the entire length of the SO.

5. Variable fiber atrophy along length of each fiber.

Reference

Demer, J. L., Poukens, V., Ying, H., Shan, X., Tian, J., and Zee, D. S. Effects of intracranial trochlear neurectomy on the structure of the primate superior oblique muscle. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 51: 3485-93, 2010.


Congenital Cranial Dysinnervation Disorders


I. Dysinnervation as a common theme

a. Oculomotor nerve

1. Hypoplasia

2. Misdirection

b. Trochlear nerve is often small or absent.

c. Abducens nerve

1. Often small or absent

2. Often replaced or supplemented by oculomotor nerve branch

d. Numerous specific mutations affecting cranial motor neural development and axon

targeting.

II. Duane syndrome

a. Superior lateral rectus (LR) zone is either innervated by the abducens nerve, or is non-

innervated and severely hypoplastic

b. Inferior lateral rectus (LR) zone is either innervated by: 1) the abducens nerve; 2) a

medial or inferior rectus motor branch of the oculomotor nerve; or 3) both the abducens

and oculomotor nerves.

c. DURS2 – dominant Duane syndrome due to gain of function α2-chimaerin that

stabilizes microtubules involved in axonal transport.

1. Bilateral but not necessarily symmetrical type I and/or III


2. A- of V-pattern: lateral rectus inferior zone contracts or relaxes in infraduction,

relaxes or contracts in supraduction.

3. Occasional structural abnormalities of extraocular muscles

a. Superior oblique muscle hypoplasia - occasional

b. Superior rectus hypoplasia - occasional

4. Subclinical optic nerve hypoplasia.

5. Oculomotor nerve hypoplasia – occasional

6. Abducens nerve hypoplasia - always

III. Congenital fibrosis of the extraocular muscles (CFEOM)

a. Three types

1. CFEOM1 – typical. Dominant, with bilateral blepharoptosis, limited

supraduction, other strabismus.

2. CFEOM2 – recessive, congenitally bilateral exotropic ophthalmoplegia and

blepharoptosis, may have fixed infra- or supraduction.

3. CFEOM3 – atypical dominant or recessive form; includes individuals from

pedigrees with CFEOM that can be clinically indistinguishable from CFEOM1 or

CFEOM2. Other pedigree members, however, have absent or unilateral ptosis,

unilateral ophthalmoplegia, non-infraducted resting eye position, and/or the

ability to supraduct one or both eyes above central position.

b. CFEOM1

1. Maps to chromosome 12

2. Due to a small number of recurrent heterozygous missense mutations in

developmental kinesin motor protein encoded by KIF21A

3. Clinical findings

ii. Mostly A-exotropia


iii. Occasionally esotropia

iv. Frequent amblyopia

v. Frequent exposure keratopathy after surgery for blepharoptosis

vi. Forced duction testing – restrictive

vii. Bell’s phenomenon absent

4. Extraocular muscle hypoplasia

i. Severe levator hypoplasia

ii. Severe superior rectus hypoplasia

iii. Inferior oblique hypoplasia

iv. Superior oblique occasionally hypoplastic

v. Longitudinal fissure separating superior and inferior LR zones, with

inferior zone sometimes innervated by oculomotor nerve

similarly to Duane syndrome

vi. Hypo-innervated muscles – severely hypoplastic

vii. Unopposed, innervated antagonists – stiff, but not fibrotic

viii. Pulleys normal

5. Cranial nerve hypoplasia

i. Optic nerve – usually subclinical

ii. Oculomotor nerve – consistently severe

iii. Occasionally abducens nerve – similar to Duane syndrome

6. Clinical suggestion – aggressive surgical ablation (extirpation) is appropriate for

muscles that lack innervated antagonists. MRI can confirm this pre-op.

c. CFEOM3

1. Multiple mutations


i.

2. Commonly due to missense mutations in TUBB3, encoding neuron-specific β-

tubulin isotype III

i. Also involved in axonal transport, similar to KIF21A.

ii. Other mutations

3. Clinical findings

asymmetrical blepharoptosis

ii. limited vertical duction

iii. variable ophthalmoplegia

iv. exotropia

v. paradoxical abduction in infraduction with A-pattern

4. MRI findings

i. Muscle hypoplasia correlates with clinical weakness

ii. Oculomotor nerve hypoplasia - ophthalmoplegia only when

subarachoid CN3 width <1.9 mm

iii. A-pattern exotropia with innervation of inferior LR zone by oculomotor

nerve branch

iii. Subclinical optic nerve hypoplasia

d. Congenital oculomotor palsy

1. Incomplete features of pupillary abnormality, ophthalmoplegia, ptosis

2. Frequently bilaterally asymmetrical

3. MRI findings

i. Hypoplastic subarachnoid oculomotor nerve

ii. Hypoplastic orbital motor nerves

iii. Hypoplasia of extraocular muscles innervated by oculomotor nerve

4. Consider similarities to CFEOM

Clark, Demer, & Ying The Nerve of That Muscle! -22- e. Möebius syndrome variant

i. Congenital facial palsy and ophthalmoplegia

ii. Severe hypoplasia of all extraocular muscles

iii. Severe orbital hypoplasia

iv. Normal cranial nerves

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