Multiple choice

The severe and unilateral headache with extraocular palsies, is the symptom of

  1. Sympathetic ophthalmia

  2. Takayasu's arteritis

  3. Giant-cell arteritis

  4. Tolosa-Hunt syndrome

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D Correct answer
Explanation

Tolosa-Hunt syndrome (THS) is a rare disorder characterized by severe and unilateral headaches with extraocular palsies, usually involving the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth cranial nerves, and pain around the sides and back of the eye, along with weakness and paralysis (ophthalmoplegia) of certain eye muscles.