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Glenn R Harris1, Mark P Breazzano2, Irene Shyu3
1Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Abstract:
A 70-year-old woman with systemic lupus erythematosus developed a painful pupil-involving right third nerve palsy, ipsilateral fourth nerve palsy, and periorbital paraesthesia. Magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated enhancement and thickening of the right third nerve, and she was diagnosed with presumed Tolosa-Hunt syndrome. Repeated imaging seven months later showed resolution of the enhancing thickened oculomotor nerve, but the patient developed signs of oculomotor synkinesis. This presentation demonstrates a rare case of oculomotor synkinesis secondary to inflammation.
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