An Interesting Case of Tolosa-Hunt Syndrome in a Young Male

Tolosa-Hunt syndrome is a rare disease with a limited number of cases reported in the literature. It typically presents with orbital pain associated with palsy of the third, fourth, or sixth cranial nerve. We present an interesting case of Tolosa-Hunt syndrome in a young male who responded well to h...

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Autores principales: Murtaza, Ghulam, Konowitz, Nicholas, Lu, Hannah, Faqah, Anadil, Kuruvilla, Aneesh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5298529/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28210639
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2324709616689478
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description Tolosa-Hunt syndrome is a rare disease with a limited number of cases reported in the literature. It typically presents with orbital pain associated with palsy of the third, fourth, or sixth cranial nerve. We present an interesting case of Tolosa-Hunt syndrome in a young male who responded well to high-dose steroids and in a few days had significant improvement in his retro-orbital pain and ocular movements.
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spelling pubmed-52985292017-02-16 An Interesting Case of Tolosa-Hunt Syndrome in a Young Male Murtaza, Ghulam Konowitz, Nicholas Lu, Hannah Faqah, Anadil Kuruvilla, Aneesh J Investig Med High Impact Case Rep Case Report Tolosa-Hunt syndrome is a rare disease with a limited number of cases reported in the literature. It typically presents with orbital pain associated with palsy of the third, fourth, or sixth cranial nerve. We present an interesting case of Tolosa-Hunt syndrome in a young male who responded well to high-dose steroids and in a few days had significant improvement in his retro-orbital pain and ocular movements. SAGE Publications 2017-01-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5298529/ /pubmed/28210639 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2324709616689478 Text en © 2017 American Federation for Medical Research http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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