Painful ophthalmoplegia with simultaneous orbital myositis, optic and oculomotor nerve inflammation and trigeminal nucleus involvement in a patient with herpes zoster ophthalmicus
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Acute orbital myositis before Herpes zoster ophthalmicus
Corresponding author: Hyung Tae Kim, M.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Presbyterian Medical Center, P.O.Box 77, Jeonju 560-750, Korea. Tel: 82-63-230-1593, Fax: 82-63-230-8128, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), wh...
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عنوان ژورنال: Case Reports
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1757-790X
DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2012-007063