Viral mononeurities causing partial oculomotor nerve palsy in an 8 month old child

BACKGROUND: Palsy of the oculomotor nerve is rarely seen in children, and comprehensive guidelines for management and outcome are difficult to find. CASE: Here we describe a 8 month old boy with left sided ptosis and infero-leteral deviation of left eye and normally reacting pupil and CSF antimeasle...

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Autores principales: Mazumdar, Jayitri, Chakraborti, Chandana, Banerjee, Arundhati, Nandi, Mousumi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Clinical Image
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5516457/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28757701
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-620X.209115
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author Mazumdar, Jayitri
Chakraborti, Chandana
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Nandi, Mousumi
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description BACKGROUND: Palsy of the oculomotor nerve is rarely seen in children, and comprehensive guidelines for management and outcome are difficult to find. CASE: Here we describe a 8 month old boy with left sided ptosis and infero-leteral deviation of left eye and normally reacting pupil and CSF antimeasles antibody titre negative. OUTCOME: The ptosis improved within 3 weeks with no residual neurodeficit. MESSAGE: Viral mononeuritis leading to partial 3rd nerve palsy is a rare entity in children till date.
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spelling pubmed-55164572017-07-28 Viral mononeurities causing partial oculomotor nerve palsy in an 8 month old child Mazumdar, Jayitri Chakraborti, Chandana Banerjee, Arundhati Nandi, Mousumi Oman J Ophthalmol Clinical Image BACKGROUND: Palsy of the oculomotor nerve is rarely seen in children, and comprehensive guidelines for management and outcome are difficult to find. CASE: Here we describe a 8 month old boy with left sided ptosis and infero-leteral deviation of left eye and normally reacting pupil and CSF antimeasles antibody titre negative. OUTCOME: The ptosis improved within 3 weeks with no residual neurodeficit. MESSAGE: Viral mononeuritis leading to partial 3rd nerve palsy is a rare entity in children till date. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5516457/ /pubmed/28757701 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-620X.209115 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Oman Ophthalmic Society 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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Viral mononeurities causing partial oculomotor nerve palsy in an 8 month old child
title Viral mononeurities causing partial oculomotor nerve palsy in an 8 month old child
title_full Viral mononeurities causing partial oculomotor nerve palsy in an 8 month old child
title_fullStr Viral mononeurities causing partial oculomotor nerve palsy in an 8 month old child
title_full_unstemmed Viral mononeurities causing partial oculomotor nerve palsy in an 8 month old child
title_short Viral mononeurities causing partial oculomotor nerve palsy in an 8 month old child
title_sort viral mononeurities causing partial oculomotor nerve palsy in an 8 month old child
topic Clinical Image
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5516457/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-620X.209115
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