title: Unilateral proptosis and extradural hematoma in a child with scurvy.
abstract: We report a 3-year-old boy with unilateral proptosis, painful swelling of the right thigh and aphasia. He had radiographic evidence of scurvy in the limbs and bilateral frontal extradural hematomas with a mass lesion in the left orbit on MRI. He was treated with vitamin C and on follow-up 8 weeks later had recovered with no evidence of the orbital mass on clinical or radiological study. Scurvy manifesting as proptosis and extradural hematoma is rare.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India 110029.
authors.forename: Sumit
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Verma
authors.forename: Sindhu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sivanandan
authors.forename: Mangalasseril K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Aneesh
authors.forename: Vaibhav
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.forename: Rachna
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Seth
authors.forename: Shushil
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kabra
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D005094:Exophthalmos / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D006407:Hematoma, Epidural, Cranial / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D012614:Scurvy / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed