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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