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ArticleBMJ case reports2021

Recurrent painful ophthalmoplegic neuropathy: a cause for recurrent third nerve palsy in a child.

Jayakumari Nandana, Sruthi S Nair, Sachin Girdhar, Soumya Sundaram

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Article in BMJ case reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jayakumari NandanaDepartment of Neurology, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, India.
Sruthi S NairDepartment of Neurology, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, India.
Sachin GirdharDepartment of Imaging Sciences and Interventional Radiology, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, India.
Soumya SundaramPediatric Neurology and Neurodevelopmental disorders, Department of Neurology, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, India ssdr.soumya@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7351-0878
Sree Chitra Thirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology · IN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recurrent painful ophthalmoplegic neuropathy (RPON), previously called ophthalmoplegic migraine, is a rare condition characterised by recurrent episodes of headache and ophthalmoplegia. We report a case of 11-year-old girl with recurrent painful ophthalmoplegia due to isolated right oculomotor nerve involvement. MR brain imaging showed enhancing lesion of cisternal segment of right oculomotor nerve. A possibility of Tolosa Hunt syndrome was considered and she was treated with glucocorticoids, followed by azathioprine due to recurrence. In the fourth episode, she developed migraine headache followed by right third nerve palsy, after which the diagnosis was revised to RPON. She was started on flunarizine along with short-term glucocorticoids. At 1-year follow-up, she remained asymptomatic. RPON should be considered in patients with recurrent third nerve palsy to avoid inadvertent long-term exposure to immunosuppressive agents.

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Migraine DisordersOculomotor Nerve DiseasesOphthalmoplegiaOphthalmoplegic MigraineTolosa-Hunt SyndromeChildFemaleHumansMagnetic Resonance Imagingcranial nervesneuroopthalmologypaediatrics (drugs and medicines)

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PMID34764123
PMCPMC8587473
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