We describe a patient with oculomotor nerve palsy due to secondary orbital infiltration from the primary malignant lymphoma of the cheek. The patient was a 78-year-old female who had non-Hodgkin lymphoma (diffuse large B cell lymphoma [DLBCL]) of the cheek. The patient received chemotherapy and local radiation therapy. The combined treatment brought about complete remission. About 6 months afte...

An application of computed tomography (CT) is described in which multiplanar high resolution images of the terminal carotid and basilar arteries are obtained. This has been applied in a series of 32 patients with IIIrd nerve palsy in whom the underlying pathology was thought to be a posterior communicating artery aneurysm. The results of the CT were compared with conventional angiography. Seven...

Isolated traumatic oculomotor nerve palsy without internal ophthalmoplegia is a rare condition after closed head trauma. The nerve strain leads to intraneural edema with nerve swelling on T2-weighted magnetic resonance (MR) images and traumatic disruption of the blood peripheral nerve barrier with contrast enhancement on T1-weighted MR images. In this patient, susceptibility-weighted MR imaging...

A 54-year-old man first was admitted with a right oculomotor nerve palsy that ameliorated spontaneously. Two months later, he was readmitted with right proptosis, ophthalmoplegia, and optic nerve involvement. MR showed an enlarged right cavernous sinus. There was dramatic improvement after high doses of steroids. MR findings 10 months later were normal. Thus, the diagnosis of the Tolosa-Hunt sy...

Abstract Herpes zoster ophthalmicus is a viral infection caused by the varicella-zoster virus, affecting ophthalmic branch of trigeminal nerve, called nerve. characterized painful rash and blisters on one side forehead around eye, along with symptoms such as eye redness, tearing, sensitivity to light, can also lead serious complications, corneal ulcers, glaucoma, vision loss, particularly if in...