Intracellular extraocular muscle light- and heavy-chain deposition disease contributing to compressive optic neuropathy in a patient with preexisting graves' orbitopathy

Ophthalmologica

Volumn 224, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 59-62

  Zakrzewski, Peter A ^a   Weis, Ezekiel ^b   White, Valerie A ^a   Rootman, Jack ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Compressive optic neuropathy; Graves' orbitopathy; Light and heavy chain deposition disease; Monoclonal immunoglobulin deposition disease; Multiple myeloma

Indexed keywords

METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HEAVY CHAIN DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN DEPOSITION; LIGHT AND HEAVY CHAIN DEPOSITION DISEASE; MICROSCOPY; MONOCLONAL IMMUNOGLOBULINEMIA; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NERVE COMPRESSION; NERVE SHEATH; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; ORBIT DISEASE; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

BIOPSY; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAINS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; PARAPROTEINEMIAS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 69049114212     PISSN: 00303755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000235727     Document Type: Article

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