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An Unusual Presentation of an Optic Nerve Lesion | Isaac Gutman | A 54-year old male with left periorbital pain and ipsilateral loss of vision. |
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Pseudotumor Cerebri in a Child | Frohman, Larry P. | A 9-year old female with a 6-week history of lethargy, a month of anorexia, post-prandial vomiting, persistent headache and two weeks of fevers of 102-103 degrees Fahrenheit. Previous history significant for frequent nosebleeds. |
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The Case of Downbeating Nystagmus | Guy, John R. | A 58-year old female with a 2-week history of nausea, vomiting, vertigo and ataxic gait. |
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Complex Visual Hallucinations in an Elderly Man | Mark S. Borchert, MD, University of Southern California | An 83-year old male with visual hallucinations and a change in personality. Previous history significant for surgically treat colonic neoplasm, MI, cataract extraction OD, III nerve palsy, diabetes mellitus, peripheral neuropathy and cardiomegaly with mitral regurgitation. |
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Acute Visual Loss in a Woman with Metastatic Breast Carcinoma | Joel M. Weinstein, MD | A 33-year old female with diminished vision OU. Previous history significant for metastatic infiltrative, intraductal breast carcinoma which was treated with modified radical mastectomy and chemotherapy. 15 months after surgery readmitted for myelography to evaluate complaints of severe back pain. I... |
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Bromocriptine Resistant Pituitary Tumor | Robert L. Lesser, MD, The Eye Care Group, Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science and Neurology at Yale, Clinical Professor of Neurology and Surgery (Neurosurgery) at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine | A 41-year old male with blurred vision OS and right occipital headache. Previous history significant for pituitary adenoma which was surgically resected. |
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Optic Nerve Corpulence | Marc H. Levy | A 68-year old female with loss of central and peripheral vision OU, headache and bilateral inferior conjunctival swelling. Previous history significant for hypothyroidism and iron-deficiency anemia. |
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An Adolescent with Bilateral Visual Loss | Warren L. Felton III | A 15-year old male with headache and binocular loss of vision over a 2-week period. Symptoms preceded by flu-like syndrome of fever, chills, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, cervical adenopathy and orthostatic light-headedness. |
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An Unusual Cranial Polyneuropathy | Deborah I. Friedman, MD, MPH, Professor, Neurology & Neurotherapeutics, University of Texas Southwestern | A 44-year old male with a 1-year history of progressive, painful ophthalmoplegia OS and 2-month history of left facial weakness. |
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A Sellar Mass | Wayne Shtybel | A 70-year old male with acute, painless horizontal diplopia followed 2 months later by headache, nausea, photophobia and weight loss. |
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Renal Failure in a Girl with Visual Loss | Ivor S. Levy | A 14-year old female with a 3-year history of progressive visual loss and poor night vision. Previous history significant for polydipsia and polyuria. Family history significant for parents who were first cousins. |
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Somewhere Over the Sphenoid | Michael L. Slavin | A 71-year old female with numbness in the right lip and cheek progressing to the right mandible and forehead. A 12-pound weight loss accompanied by horizontal diplopia further developed over an 8-month period. |
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The Inferior Orbital Fissure Syndrome | Steven A. Newman, MD, University of Virginia School of Medicine | A 26-year old female with a 9-month history of lack of tearing on the left side. |
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No Laughing Matter | Thomas J. McPhee | A 14-year old male with a 2-week history of hoarse and garbled speech, difficulty in swallowing and change in frequency and severity of chronic, generalized headaches. Previous history significant for low-grade glioma Tx XRT. |
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Supranuclear Saccadic and Pursiut Paresis: Magnetic Search Coil and Pathologic Correlation | Janine Johnston | The patient underwent posterior fossa craniotomy with decompression of the cyst. Biopsy of the cyst wall failed to show diagnostic abnormality. Post-operatively he had conjugate deviation of his eyes to the left and a right VII nerve palsy. |