Although benign, orbital myositis can lead to oculomotor dysfunction and vision loss. Systemic corticosteroid therapy is the mainstay of treatment and induces a rapid and dramatic reversal of the ...

Stidham DB, Sondhi N, Plager D, Helveston E. Presumed isolated inflammation of the superior oblique muscle in idiopathic orbital myositis. Ophthalmology . 1998;105:2216-2219. Tychsen L, Tse DT ...

Among patients with myositis, ... Patients with juvenile dermatomyositis, mixed connective tissue disease, necrotizing autoimmune myopathy or orbital myositis were excluded.

Orbital myositis can be defined as a nonspecific localised orbital inflammatory process in which one or more of the extraocular muscles may be involved. 1 Clinically, it is characterised by acute ...

Orbital myositis should be considered in those patients with atypical cluster headache signs such as painful eye movements and ocular pain which do not resolve after 3–4 hours.

The diagnosis of Graves’ ophthalmopathy can be challenging and may be confounded by the heterogeneity in clinical presentation and symptoms that overlap with those of orbital myositis ...