Clinical Reasoning: Woman With Acute Bilateral Ophthalmoplegia

Neurology. 2023 Jul 18;101(3):140-144. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000207173. Epub 2023 Mar 28.

Abstract

This is a case of a 75-year-old woman who presented with severe headache, left eye ptosis, and binocular diplopia and was found to have multiple cranial neuropathies on examination. This case reviews the localization and workup of multiple cranial neuropathies and emphasizes the importance of not prematurely narrowing the differential diagnosis.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Blepharoptosis* / diagnosis
  • Blepharoptosis* / etiology
  • Clinical Reasoning
  • Diplopia / diagnosis
  • Diplopia / etiology
  • Eye
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Ophthalmoplegia* / diagnosis
  • Ophthalmoplegia* / etiology