A Case of the Tolosa-Hunt Syndrome.
- Author:
Dong Sik YOU
1
;
Young Jae HONG
Author Information
1. Department of Ophthalmology, Yonsei University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
- Publication Type:Case Report
- MeSH:
Brain;
Cavernous Sinus;
Child;
Exophthalmos;
Headache;
Humans;
Inflammation;
Male;
Nausea;
Ophthalmoplegia;
Orbit;
Sphenoid Sinus;
Sphenoid Sinusitis;
Temazepam;
Tolosa-Hunt Syndrome*;
Vomiting
- From:Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society
1986;27(3):411-415
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
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Abstract:
Painful ophthalmoplegia due to idiopathic granulomatous inflammation of the cavernous sinus or superior orbital fissure has been termed Tolosa-Hunt syndrome. We have experienced a case of Tolosa-Hunt syndrome in an 11 year old boy who has diagnosed with several clinical signs and symptoms such as severe ocular pain, headache, ptosis, proptosis, slight limitation of eyeball motion, nausea and vomiting, and the brain and orbital C-T scan which shows the right ethmoid and sphenoid sinusitis and inflammatory thickening of dura an the planum spenoidale.
