Painful vertical diplopia as a presentation of a pituitary mass

BACKGROUND: Pituitary tumours may present with a variety of neurological and endocrinological signs and symptoms. It is very rare however for them to present with sudden onset painful diplopia. The current literature and possible mechanisms for this are discussed. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe a ca...

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Autores principales: Bansal, Shveta, Mandal, Kaveri, Kamal, Ahmed
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1838406/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17362519
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2415-7-4
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author Bansal, Shveta
Mandal, Kaveri
Kamal, Ahmed
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Kamal, Ahmed
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description BACKGROUND: Pituitary tumours may present with a variety of neurological and endocrinological signs and symptoms. It is very rare however for them to present with sudden onset painful diplopia. The current literature and possible mechanisms for this are discussed. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe a case of a pituitary mass which presented with sudden onset painful diplopia with an associated restricted pattern on Lees Chart testing. This led to an initial working diagnosis of orbital myositis. CONCLUSION: Awareness of different modes of presentation of pituitary lesions is important so that appropriate imaging may be requested and delay in diagnosis prevented.
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spelling pubmed-18384062007-03-28 Painful vertical diplopia as a presentation of a pituitary mass Bansal, Shveta Mandal, Kaveri Kamal, Ahmed BMC Ophthalmol Case Report BACKGROUND: Pituitary tumours may present with a variety of neurological and endocrinological signs and symptoms. It is very rare however for them to present with sudden onset painful diplopia. The current literature and possible mechanisms for this are discussed. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe a case of a pituitary mass which presented with sudden onset painful diplopia with an associated restricted pattern on Lees Chart testing. This led to an initial working diagnosis of orbital myositis. CONCLUSION: Awareness of different modes of presentation of pituitary lesions is important so that appropriate imaging may be requested and delay in diagnosis prevented. BioMed Central 2007-03-15 /pmc/articles/PMC1838406/ /pubmed/17362519 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2415-7-4 Text en Copyright © 2007 Bansal et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Mandal, Kaveri
Kamal, Ahmed
Painful vertical diplopia as a presentation of a pituitary mass
title Painful vertical diplopia as a presentation of a pituitary mass
title_full Painful vertical diplopia as a presentation of a pituitary mass
title_fullStr Painful vertical diplopia as a presentation of a pituitary mass
title_full_unstemmed Painful vertical diplopia as a presentation of a pituitary mass
title_short Painful vertical diplopia as a presentation of a pituitary mass
title_sort painful vertical diplopia as a presentation of a pituitary mass
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1838406/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17362519
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2415-7-4
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