Orbital pseudotumor of the levator muscle.

Publication/Presentation Date

1-1-1986

Abstract

A 58-year-old white man with chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia developed proptosis and an improvement in his ptosis from a mass in the superior orbit. A biopsy showed the mass to consist of an inflammatory mass of the levator palpebrae superioris muscle. As the inflammatory mass responded to periorbital and systemic steroids, the ptosis recurred. Inflammatory pseudotumor of the levator muscle is extremely unusual and has not been reported previously in patients with chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia.

Volume

2

Issue

3

First Page

139

Last Page

142

ISSN

0740-9303

Disciplines

Medicine and Health Sciences

PubMedID

3154553

Department(s)

Department of Medicine

Document Type

Article

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