Wu CM, Liao HE, Hsu SW, Lan SJ. Cervicogenic exophthalmos: Possible etiology and pathogenesis. World J Clin Cases 2020; 8(2): 318-324 [PMID: 32047780 DOI: 10.12998/wjcc.v8.i2.318]
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Shou-Jen Lan, PhD, Professor, Department of Healthcare Administration, Asia University, No. 500 Lioufeng Road, Wufeng District, Taichung City 41354, Taiwan. shoujenlan@gmail.com
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Orthopedics
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Case Report
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Chi-Ming Wu, Orthopaedic Department, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei 11465, Taiwan
Chi-Ming Wu, Hung-En Liao, Shang-Wei Hsu, Shou-Jen Lan, Department of Healthcare Administration, Asia University, Taichung 41354, Taiwan
Shou-Jen Lan, Department of Medical Research, China Medical University Hospital, China Medical University, Taichung 40447, Taiwan
Author contributions: Wu CM treated the patient and wrote the manuscript; Lan SJ analysed the patient’s clinical data and submitted the manuscript; Liao HE and Hsu SW were involved in the concept and revised the manuscript; all authors approved the final version of this manuscript.
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Conflict-of-interest statement: All authors, including Chi-Ming Wu, Hung-En Liao, Shang-Wei Hsu and Shou-Jen Lan, all declare that they have no conflict of interest.
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Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: Shou-Jen Lan, PhD, Professor, Department of Healthcare Administration, Asia University, No. 500 Lioufeng Road, Wufeng District, Taichung City 41354, Taiwan. shoujenlan@gmail.com
Received: October 2, 2019 Peer-review started: October 2, 2019 First decision: December 4, 2019 Revised: December 17, 2019 Accepted: December 22, 2019 Article in press: December 22, 2019 Published online: January 26, 2020 Processing time: 106 Days and 13.2 Hours
Core Tip
Core tip: “Cervicogenic” headache, vertigo, dizziness, hypertension, or tinnitus had been reported that patients with cervical spondylosis caused by sympathetic symptoms including headache, vertigo, dizziness, hypertension, or tinnitus and treated successfully with operation of anterior cervical discectomy and fixation using PEEK cages and a plate. Here we described a patient with spondylosis of C4/5/6 with unilateral exophthalmos. She suffered from unexpected spontaneous improvement of unilateral exophthalmos after an operation of anterior cervical discectomy and fixation with two PEEK interbody cages and a plate. Therefore, we have named the condition “cervicogenic exophthalmos”. To the best of our knowledge, ours is the first related case report and use of the term “cervicogenic exophthalmos” after reviewing previous literature.
