To cite: Vasavada A, Parekh P, Agrawal N, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ bcr-2013-201826 DESCRIPTION We report a rare case of isolated unilateral partial oculomotor nerve palsy in an elderly woman a day after radial angioplasty presenting with diplopia and ptosis. A 65-year-old woman with diabetes and hypertension presented with the acute onse...

BACKGROUND The tonic ocular tilt reaction (OTR) consists of vertical divergence of the eyes (skew deviation), bilateral conjugate ocular torsion, and paradoxical head tilt. The head and superior pole of both eyes are rotated toward the hypotropic eye. OBJECTIVE To describe ocular motility and torsion findings in 5 patients with OTRs that mimicked superior oblique palsies (SOPs). RESULTS In ...

Tolosa-Hunt syndrome is a rare disease with a limited number of cases reported in the literature. It typically presents with orbital pain associated with palsy of the third, fourth, or sixth cranial nerve. We present an interesting case of Tolosa-Hunt syndrome in a young male who responded well to high-dose steroids and in a few days had significant improvement in his retro-orbital pain and ocu...

Eye surgeries are performed mostly under orbital regional anesthesia (blocks) owing to their reliability and high patient acceptance. The most commonly used orbital regional blocks include retro-bulbar (intraconal), peri-bulbar (extra-conal) and sub-tenon named according to the site of deposition of local anesthetic agent. Many variations of these block techniques do also exist. Although these ...

OBJECTIVES To identify the key predictive factors of radiation-induced cranial nerve palsy in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). METHOD AND MATERIALS From November 1998 to December 2007, all consecutive patients with newly diagnosed NPC who were curatively treated with radiotherapy and subsequently developed radiation-induced cranial nerve palsy (RICNP) were included in our study. ...

OBJECTIVES To determine the most common ocular causes and types of abnormal head position (AHP) and describe their clinical features. MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients with AHP who had been followed in the strabismus unit were retrospectively reviewed. Demographic features and orthoptic characteristics were recorded. RESULTS A total of 163 patients including 61 women (37.4%) and 102 men (62.6%...

how to cite this article:  inaloo s, katibeh p. guillain-barre syndrome presenting with bilateral facial nerve palsy. iran j child neurol. 2014 winter;8(1):69-71. objective this case study is about an 11-year-old girl with bilateral facial weakness, abnormal taste sensation, and deep tendon reflexes of both knees and ankles were absent. however, the muscle power of the lower and upper extremiti...

case presentation here, we report the case of a 35-year-old man complaining of bilateral incomplete eye closure, two weeks after a closed head injury caused by a motor vehicle accident. introduction although bilateral facial nerve palsy is a rare condition, its etiology is more detectable than the unilateral type. a temporal bone fracture is one cause of bilateral facial nerve palsy, contributi...

Miller Fisher syndrome (MFS) is an immune mediated neuropathy commonly triggered by infection. It considered as a variant of Guillain-Barre syndrome. Although bilateral ophthalmoplegia the commonest ocular involvement in MFS, there are reported cases unilateral ophthalmoplegia. MFS has benign course and treatment not required majority unless life threatening complication. We report unusual case...

Systemic Lupus Erythematous (SLE) is an autoimmune disease that can affect multiple organs and have a wide variety of symptomatic presentations. One rare presenting symptom oculomotor nerve dysfunction, the following case report 41-year-old female with past medical history hypertension asthma, who was admitted for ocular dysfunction. On physical examination, patient had palsy, but rest neurolog...