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Cerebellopontine angle tumor presenting as vertical strabismus: differentiation of trochlear nerve palsy and skew deviation

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Funding

This study was supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT (2020R1A2C4002281).

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  1. Dizziness Center, Clinical Neuroscience Center, and Department of Neurology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, 173-82 Gumi-ro, Bundang-Gu, Seongnam-Si, 13620, Gyeonggi-Do, Korea

    So-Yeon Yun, Seonkyung Lee, Min-Ku Kim, Jeong-Yoon Choi & Ji-Soo Kim

  2. Department of Neurology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

    Jeong-Yoon Choi & Ji-Soo Kim

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Contributions

SYY analyzed and interpreted the data and wrote the manuscript. SL, MKK, JSK analyzed and interpreted the data and revised the manuscript. JYC designed and conceptualized the study, interpreted the data, and revised the manuscript.

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Correspondence to Jeong-Yoon Choi.

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Conflicts of interest

Dr. J. S. Kim serves as an associate editor of Frontiers in Neuro-otology and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Clinical Neurology, Frontiers in Neuro-ophthalmology, Journal of Neuro-ophthalmology, Journal of Vestibular Research, Journal of Neurology, and Medicine. Dr. J. Y Choi serves as an associate editor in Journal of Clinical Neurology. The other authors have nothing to disclose.

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This study was approved by the Institutional Review Committee of Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (B-2207-770-702), and written consent for case report was obtained from the patient.

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Yun, SY., Lee, S., Kim, MK. et al. Cerebellopontine angle tumor presenting as vertical strabismus: differentiation of trochlear nerve palsy and skew deviation. J Neurol 270, 1784–1786 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-022-11502-3

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