Causes
of Extraocular Muscle Palsies
Somwang
Suntarinka M.D.*
Arunee Lerschavanakul
M.D.*
Department ol Ophthalmology,
Chulalongkorn Hospital, Chulalongkorn University.
ABSTRACT A
retrospective study in 138 patients with extraocular muscle palsies presented
during 1985-1990 in the Neuroophthalmology clinic, Chulalongkorn University
Hospital.
Seventy-one
cases were males and 67 cases were females. The majority was found between
21-30 years old (24.64%) in the range of 1-87 years old. Lateral rectus palsy
was the most common finding and superior oblique was the least. The undetermined
causes were the large number (31.9%) where as the Imown causes were myasthenia
gravis (21%), head trauma, neoplasm, vasculopathy and aneurysm respec tively.
Most of the patient were followed less than 6 months (73.9%) and superior
oblique was found to have a good recovery.
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