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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ophthalmology. 2013 Jun 6;120(11):10.1016/j.ophtha.2013.04.009. doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2013.04.009

Table 4.

Other causes for patients in the group with vasculopathic risk factors only (Group 2).

Vasculopathic Risk Factors Only (Group 2) (n=8) Cranial nerve affected Etiology
No previous Imaging (2) Fourth Infarct dorsal Midbrain
Sixth Cavernous sinus B-cell lymphoma
Previous CT/MRI (6) Sixth Petroclival meningiomaa
Third Enhancement of third nerveb
Third Pituitary apoplexy
Sixth Giant cell arteritisc
a

Presented with normal CT scan. MRI revealed a meningioma.

b

MRI brain was normal. MRI orbits revealed enhancement of the third nerve.

c

There were 3 patients with giant cell arteritis.

CT-Computed tomography, MRI-Magnetic resonance imaging