Transient oculomotor paralysis in pseudotumor cerebri.
Transient oculomotor paralysis developed abruptly in a patient with well-documented pseudotumor cerebri. Other demonstrable causes of third-nerve palsy were excluded. Sixth-nerve palsy is known to occur in 10 to 40% of patients in most series of pseudotumor cerebri, but third-nerve palsy has not been reported previously. It may also be a nonspecific sign of raised intracranial pressure.
D000328:Adult; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009886:Ophthalmoplegia / Q000150:complications*; D011559:Pseudotumor Cerebri / Q000150:complications*