Document Type
Article
Department
Surgery; Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
Abstract
Abstract
A rare case of skull base infection with a rapid clinical course leading to visual loss and eventually death in a poorly-controlled diabetic patient is presented. A 37-year-old woman presented with a history of visual loss and painful protrusion of the right eye for the preceding 3 days.This was accompanied by vertigo and right-side facial weakness. The patient had perception of light in her right eye and 20/25 (presenting visual acuity) in the fellow eye, accompanied by right-side proptosis, total ophthalmoplegia, optic disc pallor and central retinal artery occlusion. Magnetic resonance imaging showed the presence of oedema with soft-tissue thickening in the right external auditory canal along with evidence of fluid within the middle ear cavity and mastoid air cells on the right side. A diagnosis of Orbital Apex Syndrome was made and treatment initiated.
Publication (Name of Journal)
JPMA: Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association
Recommended Citation
Baig, R.,
khan, Q.,
Sadiq, M.,
Awan, M.,
Ahmad, K.
(2013). A case of orbital apex syndrome in a patient with malignant otitis externa. JPMA: Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association, 63(2), 271-273.
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https://ecommons.aku.edu/pakistan_fhs_mc_surg_surg/213