Benign Recurrent Sixth Nerve Palsy in a Child

Benign recurrent sixth nerve palsy in children is rare. It typically occurs following viral illness or immunization, and prognosis is usually excellent. However, it is always a diagnosis of exclusion given the more serious alternative causes. Therefore, a thorough examination with brain imaging is r...

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Autores principales: Gonçalves, Rita, Coelho, Pedro, Menezes, Carlos, Ribeiro, Isabel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5763058/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29445557
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/8276256
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author Gonçalves, Rita
Coelho, Pedro
Menezes, Carlos
Ribeiro, Isabel
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Menezes, Carlos
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description Benign recurrent sixth nerve palsy in children is rare. It typically occurs following viral illness or immunization, and prognosis is usually excellent. However, it is always a diagnosis of exclusion given the more serious alternative causes. Therefore, a thorough examination with brain imaging is recommended. The authors report a child with six recurrent episodes of isolated benign sixth nerve palsy.
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spelling pubmed-57630582018-02-14 Benign Recurrent Sixth Nerve Palsy in a Child Gonçalves, Rita Coelho, Pedro Menezes, Carlos Ribeiro, Isabel Case Rep Ophthalmol Med Case Report Benign recurrent sixth nerve palsy in children is rare. It typically occurs following viral illness or immunization, and prognosis is usually excellent. However, it is always a diagnosis of exclusion given the more serious alternative causes. Therefore, a thorough examination with brain imaging is recommended. The authors report a child with six recurrent episodes of isolated benign sixth nerve palsy. Hindawi 2017 2017-12-28 /pmc/articles/PMC5763058/ /pubmed/29445557 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/8276256 Text en Copyright © 2017 Rita Gonçalves et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5763058/
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