A case of orbital myositis with blepharoptosis demonstrating the swelling of superior levator palpebrae muscle on magnetic resonance images

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 786-789

  Minohara, Motozumi ^a   Furuya, Hirokazu ^a   Yamada, Takeshi ^a   Kobayashi, Takuro ^a   Hasuo, Kanehiro ^b  

^a Kyushu University   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

blepharoptosis; MRI; orbital myositis; superior levator palpebrae muscle

Indexed keywords

PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DRUG EFFICACY; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MYOSITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PTOSIS;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BLEPHAROPTOSIS; FEMALE; GRANULOMA, PLASMA CELL, ORBITAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; PREDNISOLONE;

EID: 0029801831     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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