PUPILLARY EXAMINATION
This test should be done if the complaint is reduction of vision, ocular motility disorder, or headache.
- Size (Equal)
- Shape (Round)
- Reaction to Light
- Reaction to Accommodation
- Swinging-Flash Light Test
Pupillary Pathway
- Afferent Pathway
- Light source
- Left
- Ciliary ganglion
- 3rd cranial nerve with parasympathetic fibers
- Lateral geniculate body
- 3rd cranial nucleus
- Pretectal Nucleus
- Edinger-Westphal nucleus (part of the 3rd cranial nerve nucleus)
- Efferent Pathway
- Right
- Optic nerve
Light Reflex of the Pupil
Swinging-Flash Light Test
- Video1
- Video2
- Video3