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ldiopathic orbital myositis
| Resumo: | Idiopathic orbital myositis is an inflammatory disease of unknown etiology, whose knowledge has been increasing with the new neuroimaging technics. lt should always be an exclusion diag nosis. The authors describe a case of a 69 year old male patient, with right periorbital pain and diplopia of sudden onset, and one week later loss of homolateral visual acuity. Neurological examination showed, on the right, an almost total loss of vision, ophtalmoplegia, proptosis and hypalgesia in the territory of the first division of the Vth cranial nerve. The CT scan findings and the response to corticosteroids therapy are highlighted because of its major importance in the diagnosis of this disease. |
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| Autores principais: | Relvas, Rute |
| Outros Autores: | Cruz, Pedro; Gonçalves, Manuel; Almeida, Rita; Saraiva, Paulo; Viana, Pinto; Beirão, Cabral |
| Assunto: | miosite orbitária idiopática pseudotumor idiopathic orbital myositis pseudo tumor |
| Ano: | 1996 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Instituição associada: | Sociedade Portuguesa de Medicina Interna |
| Idioma: | português |
| Origem: | Revista Portuguesa de Medicina Interna |
| Resumo: | Idiopathic orbital myositis is an inflammatory disease of unknown etiology, whose knowledge has been increasing with the new neuroimaging technics. lt should always be an exclusion diag nosis. The authors describe a case of a 69 year old male patient, with right periorbital pain and diplopia of sudden onset, and one week later loss of homolateral visual acuity. Neurological examination showed, on the right, an almost total loss of vision, ophtalmoplegia, proptosis and hypalgesia in the territory of the first division of the Vth cranial nerve. The CT scan findings and the response to corticosteroids therapy are highlighted because of its major importance in the diagnosis of this disease. |
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