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Tolosa-Hunt syndrome
Disease definition
Tolosa-Hunt syndrome is an ophthalmoplegic syndrome, affecting all age groups, characterized by acute attacks (lasting a few days to a few weeks) of periorbital pain, ipsilateral ocular motor nerve palsies, ptosis, disordered eye movements and blurred vision usually caused by a non-specific inflammatory process in the cavernous sinus and superior orbital fissure. It has an unpredicatable course with spontaneous remission occurring in some and recurrence of attacks in others.
ORPHA:64686
Classification level: Disorder- Synonym(s):
- Painful ophthalmoplegia
- Prevalence: -
- Inheritance: -
- Age of onset: All ages
- ICD-10: H49.8
- OMIM: -
- UMLS: C0040381
- MeSH: C531833 D020333
- GARD: 7777
- MedDRA: 10051526
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