ophthalmoplegia/inflammation

A 53-year-old woman with long-standing chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) developed progressive proptosis, lid retraction, and ophthalmoplegia. MRI showed enlarged, enhancing cranial nerves that initially gave rise to diagnostic confusion with Graves disease or

We report a case of chronic progressive inflammatory polyradiculoneuropathy with a subacute exacerbation that included ataxia, tendon areflexia, ptosis, and ophthalmoplegia. Spinal fluid protein was elevated and electrophysiological studies revealed a demyelinating neuropathy. This case suggests a

A 79-year-old man with unremitting painful ophthalmoplegia had a necrotizing inflammatory process that involved the intracranial and intracavernous portions of the right internal carotid artery. The condition ultimately resulted in rupture of the carotid vessel and death. At autopsy,

Two patients with unilateral painful ophthalmoplegia are presented, a woman of 26 and a man of 28. In both cases the phlebography of the orbit shows an alteration of the orbital veinous blood flow, specially of the third segment of the superior orbital vein. Another characteristic feature of this

The authors present a 75-year-old patient with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) and ophthalmoplegia. The patient had recurrent exacerbations and remissions of her polyneuropathy over the course of one year. Antibodies to ganglioside GM-I were not detected.

We report a 19-year-old female with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) with recurrent ophthalmoplegia. The patient had chronic, recurrent, asymmetrical, predominantly, distal limb weakness, and numbness of extremities with recurrent external ophthalmoplegia. Ophthalmoplegia

Viral infection is a rare cause of painful ophthalmoplegia. We report on a 67-year-old patient who developed painful double vision after a vesicular skin rash on the left forehead. MRI disclosed simultaneous inflammatory lesions in all extraocular muscles, the second and third cranial nerve, as well

A 64-year-old female had slowly progressive bilateral external ophthalmoplegia, blepharoptosis and muscle weakness of the extremities since age 30. Laboratory examination showed an elevation of serum CK level. Biopsied specimens from the left biceps and the left orbicularis oculi muscles revealed

Chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia is one of mitochondrial disorders, characterized by ptosis, limitation of eye movement, variably severe bulbar muscle weakness and proximal limb weakness. Chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia complicated with acquired disease is extremely rare. We

The ethmoidal sinus often plays a key role in recurring infectious sinusitis. Infections arising from this area are the cause of failure of some conventional and radical operative therapies. The case studies presented here demonstrate that transnasal surgery of the ethmoidal sinus because of an

The understanding of 'pseudotumors' has significantly changed with the advent of modern imaging techniques by which the tissues affected in the orbit can be identified, and nonspecific orbital inflammatory disease is classified according to the tissue involved. Twenty cases of nonspecific orbital

Results of comprehensive serial neurophysiological tests from onset to full recovery in 3 patients with the Miller Fisher syndrome (acute ophthalmoplegia, ataxia and areflexia) are presented. These included EMG and nerve conduction, late response (H and F wave) and direct facial motor and blink

Fisher's syndrome was studied in six patients, one of whom was an 11-year-old girl, and the nosological position of this neuro-ophthalmological disorder was reviewed. The clinical features of the ophthalmoplegia in these cases were reported as secondary to a transient inflammatory lesion in the