Tolosa-Hunt Syndrome and Ocular Myasthenia: A Rare Coexistence or Real Association.

نویسندگان

  • Jaydeep Majumdar
  • Sarmishtha Mukhopadhyay
  • Abhijeet Sharan
  • Sarbani Sengupta
  • Bhaskar Ghosh
چکیده

Tolosa- Hunt syndrome is a rare steroid responsive disorder caused by granulation tissue involving the cavernous sinus or superior orbital fissure presenting as painful ophthalmoplegia and facial pain. In this report, we describe coexistence of Tolosa-Hunt syndrome with ocular myasthenia which may point towards an autoimmune etiological basis behind the cavernous sinus granulation tissue formation and also offered therapeutic challenge to ameliorate the symptoms.

برای دانلود متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید

ثبت نام

اگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید

منابع مشابه

An Interesting Case of Tolosa-Hunt Syndrome in a Young Male

Tolosa-Hunt syndrome is a rare disease with a limited number of cases reported in the literature. It typically presents with orbital pain associated with palsy of the third, fourth, or sixth cranial nerve. We present an interesting case of Tolosa-Hunt syndrome in a young male who responded well to high-dose steroids and in a few days had significant improvement in his retro-orbital pain and ocu...

متن کامل

Clinicopathological correlation in a case of painful ophthalmoplegia: Tolosa-Hunt syndrome.

A case of painful ophthalmoplegia due to idiopathic granulomatous involvement of the superior orbital fissure (Tolosa-Hunt syndrome) is described. The clinical features of recurrent pain, ocular motor nerve palsies and proptosis correlated well with the eventual demonstration of an enhancing mass in the region of the cavernous sinus. Removal of the lesion led to a resolution of the clinical pic...

متن کامل

[A case of Tolosa-Hunt syndrome presenting ocular neuromyotonia].

A 27-year-old woman noticed diplopia when gazing left and paresthesia of the left face and headache of the left side for 8 months. Abduction and supraduction of the left eye were moderately restricted. Hypoesthesia of the face innervated by the ophthalmic branch of the left trigeminal nerve was detected. Visual disturbance due to optic neuropathy developed 5 months later. MRI with gadolinium re...

متن کامل

Lymphoma of the orbit masquerading as Tolosa-Hunt syndrome

BACKGROUND Tolosa-Hunt syndrome is a rare clinical syndrome characterized by painful ophthalmoplegia and ipsilateral cranial neuropathies. It is caused by an inflammatory process of unknown etiology. CASE PRESENTATION We present a case of a 77-year-old white man with history of Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia transforming to large B-cell lymphoma who presented to a community physician complai...

متن کامل

Ramsay Hunt Syndrome Associated with True Vocal Cord Palsy- A Case Report

Introduction: Varicella-zoster virus may cause an infectious disease called Ramsay Hunt syndrome. The related symptoms include facial nerve palsy (FNP), otalgia, the vesicular eruptions of the auricle and external auditory canal, less common ocular movement disorder, facial hypoesthesia, myofascial pain, vestibular symptoms, hearing loss, dysphasia, vocal cord paralysis, as well as tongue paral...

متن کامل

ذخیره در منابع من


  با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید

برای دانلود متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید

ثبت نام

اگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید

عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Journal of the Association of Physicians of India

دوره 65 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2017