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Brain abscess developed following systemic corticosteroid therapy in a case of Tolosa-Hunt syndrome Masahiro Zakou 1 , Mikki Arai 1 , Rika Kubo 1 , Iwao Ohzuno 1 1Dept of Ophthalmol, Shizuoka City Hospital pp.1657-1661
Published Date 1993/9/15
DOI https://doi.org/10.11477/mf.1410901831
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A 40-year-old female presented with diplopia,retrobulbar pain and blepharoptosis in her left eye.Examinations showed ipsilateral palsies of oculomotor, trochlear and abducens nerves. She was diagnosed as presumed Tolosa-Hunt syn-drome. The clinical symptoms disappeared after diagnosistic-therapeutic systemic prednisolone but ophthalmoplegia recurred after tapering of medica-tion. After reinstitution of prednisolone therapy ata higher dosis, she developed fever and severe headache. Bacterial meningitis was diagnosed after lumbar puncture. Only slight abducens palsy remained after 1 month of systemic antibiotics, but computed tomography showed enlargement of brain abscess in the occipital lobe.

Aspiration of the pus was performed. She was cured leaving right homonymous hemianopia. The possibility of infection has to be borne in mind when attempting systemic corticosteroid therapy for Tolosa-Hunt syndrome.


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