Journal of AAPOS : the official publication of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus · 2006
Orbital magnetic resonance imaging of extraocular muscles in chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia: specific diagnostic findings.
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Ortube Maria Carolina, Bhola Rahul, Demer Joseph L
Аннотация
INTRODUCTION: Chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia (CPEO) is characterized by slowly progressive bilateral ophthalmoplegia and blepharoptosis. Molecular diagnosis is problematic because sporadic mitochondrial DNA deletions can be causative. We sought findings using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that might support the diagnosis of CPEO.
METHODS: Two men (ages 31 and 47 years) and 3 women (ages 40-49 years) with CPEO and symptom durations of 8 months to 28 years underwent high-resolution (2-mm slice thickness, 312 micron pixels), surface coil, T1-weighted orbital MRI in coronal planes. Images were analyzed quantitatively to determine extraocular muscle (EOM) sizes and were compared with 10 age- and gender-matched normal volunteers, one subject with myasthenia gravis, and with 30 subjects having EOM paralysis caused by oculomotor, trochlear,0 and abducens neuropathies.
RESULTS: EOM function was clinically diminished in CPEO, most markedly for the superior rectus (SR) and levator muscles. All EOMs in CPEO exhibited unusual qualitative T1 MRI signal abnormalities. Unlike the profound EOM atrophy typical of neurogenic paralysis, anterior volumes of medial rectus, lateral rectus, and inferior rectus muscles in CPEO were not smaller than normal (p>0.003). Anterior volumes of the SR muscle-levator complex and superior oblique were significantly reduced (p<0.003). Denervated EOMs exhibited statistically significant volume reduction when compared with normal and CPEO groups. Volume of the SR muscle-levator complex was the same in subjects with CPEO and oculomotor palsies.
CONCLUSIONS: CPEO is associated with minimal EOM volume reduction despite clinically severe weakness. This combination of findings may be specific for CPEO and could resolve the diagnostic dilemma in difficult cases.
METHODS: Two men (ages 31 and 47 years) and 3 women (ages 40-49 years) with CPEO and symptom durations of 8 months to 28 years underwent high-resolution (2-mm slice thickness, 312 micron pixels), surface coil, T1-weighted orbital MRI in coronal planes. Images were analyzed quantitatively to determine extraocular muscle (EOM) sizes and were compared with 10 age- and gender-matched normal volunteers, one subject with myasthenia gravis, and with 30 subjects having EOM paralysis caused by oculomotor, trochlear,0 and abducens neuropathies.
RESULTS: EOM function was clinically diminished in CPEO, most markedly for the superior rectus (SR) and levator muscles. All EOMs in CPEO exhibited unusual qualitative T1 MRI signal abnormalities. Unlike the profound EOM atrophy typical of neurogenic paralysis, anterior volumes of medial rectus, lateral rectus, and inferior rectus muscles in CPEO were not smaller than normal (p>0.003). Anterior volumes of the SR muscle-levator complex and superior oblique were significantly reduced (p<0.003). Denervated EOMs exhibited statistically significant volume reduction when compared with normal and CPEO groups. Volume of the SR muscle-levator complex was the same in subjects with CPEO and oculomotor palsies.
CONCLUSIONS: CPEO is associated with minimal EOM volume reduction despite clinically severe weakness. This combination of findings may be specific for CPEO and could resolve the diagnostic dilemma in difficult cases.