Unilateral proptosis and extradural hematoma in a child with scurvy.
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.
Verma
Sumit
S
Department of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India 110029.
Sivanandan
Sindhu
S
Aneesh
Mangalasseril K
MK
Gupta
Vaibhav
V
Seth
Rachna
R
Kabra
Shushil
S
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