ORBITAL PSEUDOTUMOUR- THE OCULOMOTOR NERVE PALSY MIMICKER

Journal Title: Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences - Year 2019, Vol 8, Issue 4

Abstract

PRESENTATION OF CASE A 53-year old female patient, a known case of CA breast (Status post-mastectomy, on tamoxifen since last 2 years), presented to our Neurology OPD 1 month back with the chief complaint of double vision and very severe pain in left eye. Patient had a history of trivial trauma to the same eye one month prior to that by “some insect” hitting her eye while riding a two-wheeler. The pain was sudden in onset and was associated with severe headache. She was managed conservatively at an outside hospital and felt partly relieved by analgesics; but subsequently she developed diplopia within a period of 15 days. This was associated with pain and nasal field of vision defect of left eye

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Dinesh Kumar, Shakeen Singh, Anureet Gill, Shubham Mahajan

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  • EP ID EP554697
  • DOI 10.14260/jemds/2019/60
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Dinesh Kumar, Shakeen Singh, Anureet Gill, Shubham Mahajan (2019). ORBITAL PSEUDOTUMOUR- THE OCULOMOTOR NERVE PALSY MIMICKER. Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences, 8(4), 279-280. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-554697