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Treatment of tolosa-hunt syndrome with acupuncture: A case report

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Tolosa-Hunt syndrome is a rare medical condition with special clinical manifestations, characterized by sharp severe headache as the initial symptom. The pain is usually located around the orbit or deep inside, ocular motor nerve palsy following or together with the pain[1]. We treated a case of Tolosa-Hunt syndrome with acupuncture-moxibustion treatment, and now report it as follows.

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  1. Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, 201203, China

    Kai Wei, Dong-qin Wang & Lin-lin Zhang

  2. Shanghai Research Institute of Acupuncture and Meridian, Shanghai, 200030, China

    Xiao-peng Ma

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Wei, K., Ma, Xp., Wang, Dq. et al. Treatment of tolosa-hunt syndrome with acupuncture: A case report. J. Acupunct. Tuina. Sci. 11, 61–63 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11726-013-0657-6

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