Unilateral acquired Brown's syndrome in systemic scleroderma: An unusual cause for diplopia

Brown's syndrome can be congenital or acquired with multiple causes. It has been described as a ocular complication in various rheumatic and nonrheumatic diseases. We describe a case of 27-year-old female patient with 5 years old history of systemic scleroderma who developed vertical diplopia,...

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Autores principales: Pawar, Neelam, Ravindran, Meenakshi, Ramakrishnan, Renagappa, Maheshwari, Devendra, Trivedi, Bhakti
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Brief Communications
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4730701/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26669341
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.171971
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author Pawar, Neelam
Ravindran, Meenakshi
Ramakrishnan, Renagappa
Maheshwari, Devendra
Trivedi, Bhakti
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description Brown's syndrome can be congenital or acquired with multiple causes. It has been described as a ocular complication in various rheumatic and nonrheumatic diseases. We describe a case of 27-year-old female patient with 5 years old history of systemic scleroderma who developed vertical diplopia, a left head tilt, and restriction of left eye on elevation in adduction. The patient responded to systemic steroids with resolution of diplopia.
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spelling pubmed-47307012016-02-16 Unilateral acquired Brown's syndrome in systemic scleroderma: An unusual cause for diplopia Pawar, Neelam Ravindran, Meenakshi Ramakrishnan, Renagappa Maheshwari, Devendra Trivedi, Bhakti Indian J Ophthalmol Brief Communications Brown's syndrome can be congenital or acquired with multiple causes. It has been described as a ocular complication in various rheumatic and nonrheumatic diseases. We describe a case of 27-year-old female patient with 5 years old history of systemic scleroderma who developed vertical diplopia, a left head tilt, and restriction of left eye on elevation in adduction. The patient responded to systemic steroids with resolution of diplopia. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015-11 /pmc/articles/PMC4730701/ /pubmed/26669341 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.171971 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Pawar, Neelam
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Unilateral acquired Brown's syndrome in systemic scleroderma: An unusual cause for diplopia
title Unilateral acquired Brown's syndrome in systemic scleroderma: An unusual cause for diplopia
title_full Unilateral acquired Brown's syndrome in systemic scleroderma: An unusual cause for diplopia
title_fullStr Unilateral acquired Brown's syndrome in systemic scleroderma: An unusual cause for diplopia
title_full_unstemmed Unilateral acquired Brown's syndrome in systemic scleroderma: An unusual cause for diplopia
title_short Unilateral acquired Brown's syndrome in systemic scleroderma: An unusual cause for diplopia
title_sort unilateral acquired brown's syndrome in systemic scleroderma: an unusual cause for diplopia
topic Brief Communications
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4730701/
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