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Combined Brown syndrome and superior oblique palsy without a trochlear nerve: case report
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- Issue Date
- 2017-08-25
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Citation
- BMC Ophthalmology, 17(1):159
- Keywords
- Brown syndrome ; Superior oblique palsy ; Trochlear nerve
- Description
- CCDD: congenital cranial dysinnervation disorder; MRI: magnetic resonance imaging; RHT: right hypertropia; SO: superior oblique
- Abstract
- Abstract
Background
Congenital Brown syndrome is characterized by limited elevation particularly during adduction. The pathogenesis of congenital Brown syndrome is still controversial.
Case presentation
A 6-year-old boy had been tilting his head to the left since infancy. He showed right hypertropia (RHT) of 2 prism diopters (Δ) in the primary position. He showed RHT 6Δ in right gaze, RHT 2Δ in left gaze, RHT 12Δ in right head tilt, and orthotropia in left head tilt. The right eye showed limitation of elevation and depression on adduction, and the left eye showed overdepression on adduction. MR images showed an absent right trochlear nerve with a hypoplastic ipsilateral superior oblique muscle.
Conclusions
Congenital Brown syndrome may be associated with an absent trochlear nerve and hypoplastic superior oblique muscle suggesting an etiologic mechanism of congenital cranial dysinnervation disorder.
- ISSN
- 1471-2415
- Language
- English
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