SKEW DEVIATION AFTER VESTIBULAR NEURITIS

We treated five patients with vestibular neuritis who had strabismus. Three of them spontaneously noted vertical diplopia. During the follow ing weeks and months, strabismus progressively resolved, indicating th e recently acquired nature of the oculomotor condition. In three of th ese individuals, a change in visual vertical and cyclotorsion of the g lobes suggested that strabismus was a form of skew deviation that occu rred as a part of an ocular tilt reaction resulting from the periphera l vestibular lesion. Strabismus appears to occur frequently in this co mmon vestibular condition.