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Case Reports
. 1977 Aug;4(3):209-12.
doi: 10.1017/s0317167100025245.

A non-permanent tonic pupil in rheumatoid arteritis

D I Victor, W R Green, W J Stark, F B Walsh
Case Reports

A non-permanent tonic pupil in rheumatoid arteritis

D I Victor et al. Can J Neurol Sci. 1977 Aug.

Abstract

A 76-year-old male with a severely deforming rheumatoid arthritis, eosinophilia, polymyositis, and episcleritis developed a transient tonic pupil. The episcleritis, and a muscle biopsy revealing an occlusive arteritis with eosinophilia, suggest that a wide-spread rheumatoid arteritis caused a reversible ischemic insult to the ciliary ganglion and thus created a transient denervation of the pupil.

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