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Bilateral painful idiopathic ophthalmoplegia: a case report.

Nieri A, Bazan R, Almeida L, Rocha FC, Raffin CN, Bigal ME, Schelp AO

Universidade Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho, Clinical Neurology, Botucatu, SP, Brazil.

Around 3% of the individuals with painful ophthalmoplegia have bilateral complaints. In the vast majority of these cases, appropriate investigation demonstrates a secondary etiology, and we are not aware of idiopathic cases reported. Herein we report a case of bilateral ophthalmoplegia where extensive investigation did not suggest a secondary cause.

Published 20 June 2007 in Headache, 47(6): 848-51.
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