Unilateral diplopia and ptosis in a child with COVID-19 revealing third cranial nerve palsy

We report the case of a 10-year-old boy with acute–onset diplopia and ptosis in the right eye. CR was positive for SARS-CoV-2. The patient was managed successfully with corticosteroids. We highlight the need for heightened suspicion of occult COVID-19 infection among children presenting with unusual...

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Autores principales: Elenga, Narcisse, Martin, Elise, Gerard, Max, Osei, Lindsay, Rasouly, Najibullah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences. 2021
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8352849/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34416597
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2021.08.007
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author Elenga, Narcisse
Martin, Elise
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Rasouly, Najibullah
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description We report the case of a 10-year-old boy with acute–onset diplopia and ptosis in the right eye. CR was positive for SARS-CoV-2. The patient was managed successfully with corticosteroids. We highlight the need for heightened suspicion of occult COVID-19 infection among children presenting with unusual III nerve palsy.
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spelling pubmed-83528492021-08-10 Unilateral diplopia and ptosis in a child with COVID-19 revealing third cranial nerve palsy Elenga, Narcisse Martin, Elise Gerard, Max Osei, Lindsay Rasouly, Najibullah J Infect Public Health Short Communication We report the case of a 10-year-old boy with acute–onset diplopia and ptosis in the right eye. CR was positive for SARS-CoV-2. The patient was managed successfully with corticosteroids. We highlight the need for heightened suspicion of occult COVID-19 infection among children presenting with unusual III nerve palsy. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences. 2021-09 2021-08-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8352849/ /pubmed/34416597 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2021.08.007 Text en © 2021 The Author(s) Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Unilateral diplopia and ptosis in a child with COVID-19 revealing third cranial nerve palsy
title Unilateral diplopia and ptosis in a child with COVID-19 revealing third cranial nerve palsy
title_full Unilateral diplopia and ptosis in a child with COVID-19 revealing third cranial nerve palsy
title_fullStr Unilateral diplopia and ptosis in a child with COVID-19 revealing third cranial nerve palsy
title_full_unstemmed Unilateral diplopia and ptosis in a child with COVID-19 revealing third cranial nerve palsy
title_short Unilateral diplopia and ptosis in a child with COVID-19 revealing third cranial nerve palsy
title_sort unilateral diplopia and ptosis in a child with covid-19 revealing third cranial nerve palsy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8352849/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34416597
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2021.08.007
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