title: Uniocular ptosis due to cysticercosis of extraocular muscle.
abstract: Involvement of extraocular muscle by Cysticercus cellulosae is very rare. Rarer still is the isolated involvement of the levator palpebrae superioris muscle presenting clinically as ptosis. We report here such a presentation in an eleven years old girl.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Shankar Hospital, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Raman
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kundra
authors.forename: S N
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Kundra
mesh_terms: D001763:Blepharoptosis / Q000469:parasitology*; D002648:Child; D003551:Cysticercosis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009220:Myositis / Q000469:parasitology*