More Than Meets the Eye: Isolated Bilateral Abducens Nerve Palsy as the Initial Presentation of Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis (MA) is a chronic demyelinating disease of the central nervous system. Although the initial presentation of MS is widely variable, only rarely does it present with isolated bilateral cranial nerve involvement. With this article, we report a case of MS initially presenting as a cli...

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Autores principales: Ojemolon, Pius E, Enejo, Rebecca E, Evbayekha, Endurance O, Ituah, Livio U, Shaka, Hafeez
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9395122/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36039209
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.27176
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author Ojemolon, Pius E
Enejo, Rebecca E
Evbayekha, Endurance O
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Shaka, Hafeez
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description Multiple sclerosis (MA) is a chronic demyelinating disease of the central nervous system. Although the initial presentation of MS is widely variable, only rarely does it present with isolated bilateral cranial nerve involvement. With this article, we report a case of MS initially presenting as a clinically isolated syndrome of bilateral abducens nerve palsy.
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spelling pubmed-93951222022-08-28 More Than Meets the Eye: Isolated Bilateral Abducens Nerve Palsy as the Initial Presentation of Multiple Sclerosis Ojemolon, Pius E Enejo, Rebecca E Evbayekha, Endurance O Ituah, Livio U Shaka, Hafeez Cureus Internal Medicine Multiple sclerosis (MA) is a chronic demyelinating disease of the central nervous system. Although the initial presentation of MS is widely variable, only rarely does it present with isolated bilateral cranial nerve involvement. With this article, we report a case of MS initially presenting as a clinically isolated syndrome of bilateral abducens nerve palsy. Cureus 2022-07-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9395122/ /pubmed/36039209 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.27176 Text en Copyright © 2022, Ojemolon et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/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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Ojemolon, Pius E
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title_full_unstemmed More Than Meets the Eye: Isolated Bilateral Abducens Nerve Palsy as the Initial Presentation of Multiple Sclerosis
title_short More Than Meets the Eye: Isolated Bilateral Abducens Nerve Palsy as the Initial Presentation of Multiple Sclerosis
title_sort more than meets the eye: isolated bilateral abducens nerve palsy as the initial presentation of multiple sclerosis
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.27176
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