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Lateral rectus metastasis from an occult systemic malignancy masquerading as abducens palsy: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Abduction deficit in the elderly is commonly caused by sixth cranial nerve palsy due to microvasculopathy. However, not all such cases are of neurogenic origin, as our case report shows. CASE PRESENTATION: We present the case of a 75-year-old woman who was generally unwell, developed a...

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Autores principales: Masoud, Mohammad T, Rehman, Ajmal, Shaikh, Yusuf
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2429912/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18534004
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-194