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Table 2 Response rate of pain and diplopia to glucocorticoids in cases of painful ophthalmoplegia with normal neuroimaging

From: Painful ophthalmoplegia with normal cranial imaging

Response to glucocorticoids

Ocular diabetic neuropathy

Benign Tolosa-Hunt syndrome

Ophthalmoplegic migraine

Total

p value

Pain, N (%)

10 (90.9)

20 (100.0)

4 (100.0)

34 (97.1)

0.325

Diplopia, N (%)

7 (63.6)

19 (95.0)

4 (100.0)

30 (85.7)

0.040

  1. A positive response to glucocorticoids was defined as relief of symptoms or improvement of neurologic signs within 3 days of glucocorticoid treatment. MRI = magnetic resonance imaging; N = number.