TY - JOUR
T1 - Isolated Sixth-Nerve Palsies in Younger Adults
AU - Moster, Mark L.
AU - Savino, Peter J.
AU - Sergott, Robert C.
AU - Bosley, Thomas M.
AU - Schatz, Norman J.
PY - 1984/9
Y1 - 1984/9
N2 - Acquired sixth-nerve palsies are relatively rare in younger adults. We reexamined 49 patients, aged from 15 to 50 years, with isolated sixth-nerve palsies who were seen between 1972 and 1982 at the Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia. In this group, the following etiologies were encountered: vasculopathy (14 patients [29%]), tumors (eight patients [16%]), multiple sclerosis (six patients [12%]), presumed inflammation (four patients [8%]), trauma (three patients [6%]), postlumbar puncture (two patients [4%]), and orbital amyloidosis (one patient [2%]). Eleven patients (22%) had no determined cause of their sixth-nerve palsy. The implications for the clinical management of isolated sixth-nerve palsies in younger adults are discussed.
AB - Acquired sixth-nerve palsies are relatively rare in younger adults. We reexamined 49 patients, aged from 15 to 50 years, with isolated sixth-nerve palsies who were seen between 1972 and 1982 at the Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia. In this group, the following etiologies were encountered: vasculopathy (14 patients [29%]), tumors (eight patients [16%]), multiple sclerosis (six patients [12%]), presumed inflammation (four patients [8%]), trauma (three patients [6%]), postlumbar puncture (two patients [4%]), and orbital amyloidosis (one patient [2%]). Eleven patients (22%) had no determined cause of their sixth-nerve palsy. The implications for the clinical management of isolated sixth-nerve palsies in younger adults are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1001/archopht.1984.01040031078029
DO - 10.1001/archopht.1984.01040031078029
M3 - Article
C2 - 6477251
AN - SCOPUS:0021223875
SN - 0003-9950
VL - 102
SP - 1328
EP - 1330
JO - Archives of ophthalmology
JF - Archives of ophthalmology
IS - 9
ER -