Abstract
Recurrence of peripheral nerve palsy is unusual, specially in eye. So there's seldom report about recurrent peripheral nerve palsy in eye. We treated a patient who had consecutive oculomotor nerve palsy after recovery of abducent nerve palsy at right eye. The patient visited our clinic for abducent nerve palsy. When he was hospitalized, ophthalmalgia was VAS 4 but it disappeared when he discharged on 21th of June. Although there was, in the case of abduction of eye, no noticeable change during the hospitalization, it was healed after he received outpatient service twice a week until Nov. 3rd. Oculomotor nerve palsy appeared on 24th of November, 2008 and the patient was hospitalized on Nov. 26th. At that time ophthalmalgia was VAS 4, but disappeared when he discharged. When he entered hospital, the length between upper & lower eyelid and MRD 1 were all 0mm. However, when he discharged, the length between upper & lower eyelid was 11mm, and MRD 1, 4mm which were the same lengths as those of the normal left eye. In the case of eye movement, the motion of supraduction, infraduction, and adduction was entirely inhibited when the patient was hospitalized. By the time of discharge, the inhibition of infraduction was recovered after that of adduction, but the inhibition of supraduction was not recovered. This is a very rare case of peripheral nerve palsy, nevertheless he recovered complete twice by acupuncture and herb medicine therapy.
