Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 39-2011. A woman in her 90s with unilateral ptosis

N Engl J Med. 2011 Dec 22;365(25):2413-22. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcpc1110048.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Clinical Conference

MeSH terms

  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Blepharoptosis / etiology*
  • Brain / diagnostic imaging
  • Brain / pathology*
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Lung / diagnostic imaging
  • Lung / pathology
  • Myasthenia Gravis / diagnosis*
  • Myasthenia Gravis / etiology
  • Myocarditis / complications
  • Myocarditis / pathology
  • Nervous System Diseases / diagnosis
  • Paraneoplastic Syndromes / diagnosis*
  • Polymyositis / complications
  • Polymyositis / pathology
  • Radiography
  • Respiratory Insufficiency / etiology
  • Thymoma / complications
  • Thymoma / pathology*
  • Thymus Neoplasms / complications
  • Thymus Neoplasms / pathology*