Tolosa-Hunt-Like Syndrome: A Case Report

Tolosa-hunt syndrome (ths) is a painful ophthalmoplegia associated with granulomatous inflammation of the cavernous carotid artery and surrounding tissues which responds to corticosteroid. other causes of painful ophthalmoplegia must be ruled out. we present a case of ths in which the course of the disease suggested this idiopathic condition which occurred after wide mastoidectomy. the patient was diabetic and had a huge pituitary gland adenoma. partial petrosectomy, laboratory tests, and imaging studies were normal. we named this condition ‘tolosa-hunt-like syndrome’.