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Exclusion criteria were a known strabismus before the age of 50 and\/or vertical deviations in the primary position. Anamnestic characteristics, accompanying findings and orthoptic parameters, were analysed.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Results 85 patients were included in the study, 42 of them female and 43 male. The following diagnoses were made: abducens nerve palsy (n\u2009=\u200934, 3 of them both sides), esotropia due to myopia magna (n\u2009=\u200912), esotropia with accompanying neurological symptoms (n\u2009=\u20096) and other etiology (n\u2009=\u20095). In 4 cases, the diagnosis was still unclear at the end of the study. In 24 patients, none of the above diagnoses existed and the diagnosis of \u201csagging eye syndrome\u201d (ETSAG) was made. The abducens nerve palsy typically showed a sudden onset of double vision, slowed abduction saccades and asymmetrical abduction ability. With unilateral abducens nerve palsy, the esotropia increased continuously from the view to the unaffected side through the primary position to the view to the affected side. Patients with ETSAG and myopia-associated esotropia, on the other hand, reported a gradual onset of double vision, showed normal abduction saccades and a slightly reduced abduction ability. The squint angle often increased slightly to both sides. Esotropia with accompanying neurological symptoms was rare and was seen in various underlying diseases.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Conclusions The kind of onset of the double vision, the quality of the saccades, the incomitance pattern and the ability to abduct are important parameters for the etiological assignment of an esotropia in the elderly. The characteristics of the individual diagnoses are described and differential diagnostic aspects are discussed.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1055\/a-1186-2029","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,8,20]],"date-time":"2020-08-20T23:43:01Z","timestamp":1597966981000},"page":"1107-1116","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Differential Diagnosis of Acquired Esotropia in the Elderly"],"prefix":"10.1055","volume":"237","author":[{"given":"Bettina","family":"Roggenk\u00e4mper","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Zentrum f\u00fcr Augenheilkunde, Universit\u00e4t zu K\u00f6ln, Medizinische Fakult\u00e4t, K\u00f6ln"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Antje","family":"Neugebauer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Zentrum f\u00fcr Augenheilkunde, Universit\u00e4t zu K\u00f6ln, Medizinische Fakult\u00e4t, 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