Abstract
The Tolosa-Hunt syndrome is characterized by ophthalmoplegia with unilateral severe retro-orbital pain associated to a granulomatous inflammatory process occupying the cavernous sinus or the superior orbital fissure. The etiology is unknown and diagnosis is based upon a clinical response to steroid treatment and exclusion of neoplasm, trauma, aneurysms, infectious, and inflammatory diseases. A 43-year-old man was admitted because of a 1-week history of acute onset left-sided retro-orbital pain, followed by left sixth cranial nerve palsy. Magnetic resonance imaging was normal and Tolosa-Hunt syndrome was suspected. Steroid treatment controlled pain with recovery of ophthalmoplegia. Four months later, when a good response to treatment was still present, brain magnetic resonance imaging revealed a lesion enlarging the left cavernous sinus, isointense with the gray matter on T1-weighted sequences, hypointense on T2-weighted images, and with homogeneous enhancement after gadolinium injection. Two months later, ocular pain and sixth cranial nerve palsy recurred and new brain magnetic resonance imaging showed an extension of the tissue occupying the left cavernous sinus, over the sella, to the right cavernous sinus, making possible an...Continue Reading
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