GIANT-CELL ARTERITIS PRESENTING AS OCULOMOTOR NERVE PALSY WITH PUPILLARY DILATATION

Authors
DAVIES GE SHAKIR RA
Citation
Ge. Davies et Ra. Shakir, GIANT-CELL ARTERITIS PRESENTING AS OCULOMOTOR NERVE PALSY WITH PUPILLARY DILATATION, Postgraduate medical journal, 70(822), 1994, pp. 298-299
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
Postgraduate medical journal → ACNP
ISSN journal
00325473
Volume
70
Issue
822
Year of publication
1994
Pages
298 - 299
Database
ISI
SICI code
0032-5473(1994)70:822<298:GAPAON>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
Acute complete oculomotor palsy with headache is a classical presentat ion of an extrinsic compression most commonly due to a posterior commu nicating artery aneurysm. We present a patient with such a presentatio n but with histologically proven giant cell arteritis. This possibilit y should be considered especially in the elderly to avoid complication s and the need for angiography.