Acute Complete Oculomotor Nerve Palsy in a Young Male Due to a Skull Base Myofibroma.

J Neuroophthalmol

Ophthalmology Department (TTH, NHTL), Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam; Ophthalmology Unit (TTH, NHTL), Hanoi Medical University Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam; Save Sight Institute (TTH), the University of Sydney School of Medicine, Sydney, Australia ; Neurology Unit (TVL), Hanoi Medical University Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam; Neurosurgery Department I (DT), Viet Duc Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam; Pathology Department (TDH), Viet Duc Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam; and Ophthalmology Department (PSS), University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado.

Published: December 2021

A 25-year-old male patient visited the ophthalmology clinic because of upper eye lid ptosis in the right eye, binocular double vision, and light sensitivity. He was diagnosed with a complete third nerve palsy caused by a skull base myofibroma, a rare clinical entity that has not been described before in oculomotor nerve palsy.

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