Tolosa-Hunt Syndrome: A Painful Ophthalmoplegia

Marcellin Bugeme; Ousmane Cissé; Olivier Mukuku; Amadou Gallo Diop

doi:10.1155/2020/8883983

Tolosa-Hunt Syndrome: A Painful Ophthalmoplegia

Case Rep Neurol Med. 2020 Nov 7:2020:8883983. doi: 10.1155/2020/8883983. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Marcellin Bugeme¹, Ousmane Cissé², Olivier Mukuku³, Amadou Gallo Diop²

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Medicine, University of Lubumbashi, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
² Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal.
³ Institut Supérieur des Techniques Médicales de Lubumbashi, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Abstract

Tolosa-Hunt syndrome is a painful ophthalmoplegia characterized by recurrent unilateral orbital pain, ipsilateral oculomotor paralysis, and a rapid response to steroids. Our report describes a 37-year-old young woman who presented with right ptosis, ipsilateral ophthalmoplegia, and painful headache with no other neurological deficits in which all biological and neuroimaging investigations were normal. Complete recovery within one week of corticosteroid therapy was observed. This is probably the first case of Tolosa-Hunt syndrome reported in Dakar, Senegal.

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Case Reports