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LETTER TO EDITOR |
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Year : 2007 | Volume
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Authors' reply
Jean-Claude Mwanza1, Georgette B Ngweme2, David L Kayembe1
1 Kinshasa University Hospital, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo 2 Saint Joseph Hospital, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
Correspondence Address: Jean-Claude Mwanza Kinshasa University Hospital, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None | Check |
How to cite this article: Mwanza JC, Ngweme GB, Kayembe DL. Authors' reply. Indian J Ophthalmol 2007;55:79 |
Dear Editor,
We thank Dr. Jitendra Jethani for showing interest in our article.[1] We agree with the suggestion that we could have presented the etiologies according to the classification proposed by Patel et al .[2] We have revisited our data and, we are providing a brief summary of the results based on the above classification. Traumatic and nontraumatic-related palsies represented 13% and 87%, respectively. Of the 27 cases with nontraumatic palsies, nonneurologically isolated were noted in 16 (59%) whereas 11 (41%) cases were neurologically isolated. These data indicate that most subjects had ocular motor nerves palsies associated not only with other neurological manifestations but with nonophthalmological and nonneurological manifestations or signs as well. It is however important not to lose sight of the fact that, unlike the study by Patel et al .[2] that focused on a single ocular motor nerve, our study dealt with all three ocular motor nerves. This may account, at least partly, for the difference in the proportions between the two studies.
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1. | Mwanza JC, Ngweme GB, Kayembe DL. Ocular motor nerve palsy: A clinical and etiological study. Indian J Ophthalmol 2006;54:173-5. [ PUBMED] [ FULLTEXT] |
2. | Patel SV, Mutyala S, Leske DA, Hodge DO, Holmes JM. Incidence, associations and evaluation of sixth nerve palsy using a population-based method. Ophthalmology 2004;111:369-75. [ PUBMED] [ FULLTEXT] |
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