Isolated abducens nerve palsy after closed head injury in a child

The authors present the rare case of a 5-year-old child with an isolated right abducens nerve palsy following a minor closed head injury. Occlusion of the left eye for 4 h daily was prescribed, and the child remained under close ophthalmological follow-up. Significant improvement was noticed in the...

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Autores principales: Asproudis, Ioannis, Vourda, Eleni, Zafeiropoulos, Paraskevas, Katsanos, Andreas, Tzoufi, Meropi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4738664/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26903725
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-620X.169905
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author Asproudis, Ioannis
Vourda, Eleni
Zafeiropoulos, Paraskevas
Katsanos, Andreas
Tzoufi, Meropi
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description The authors present the rare case of a 5-year-old child with an isolated right abducens nerve palsy following a minor closed head injury. Occlusion of the left eye for 4 h daily was prescribed, and the child remained under close ophthalmological follow-up. Significant improvement was noticed in the following 6 months.
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spelling pubmed-47386642016-02-22 Isolated abducens nerve palsy after closed head injury in a child Asproudis, Ioannis Vourda, Eleni Zafeiropoulos, Paraskevas Katsanos, Andreas Tzoufi, Meropi Oman J Ophthalmol Case Report The authors present the rare case of a 5-year-old child with an isolated right abducens nerve palsy following a minor closed head injury. Occlusion of the left eye for 4 h daily was prescribed, and the child remained under close ophthalmological follow-up. Significant improvement was noticed in the following 6 months. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4738664/ /pubmed/26903725 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-620X.169905 Text en Copyright: © 2015 Asproudis I et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4738664/
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