Giacomo Garone, Valentina Ferro, Marta Barbato, Nicola Vanacore, Laura Papini, Stefano Pro, Alessandra Boni, Barbara Scialanga, Raffaella Nacca, Melania Evangelisti, Giovanni Di Nardo, Pasquale Parisi, Umberto Raucci
OBJECTIVES: Acute strabismus (AS) is the most common ocular motility disorder in children. In the emergency setting evaluation, the primary concern is to exclude a potentially dangerous underlying condition, requiring immediate intervention. Our first aim was to describe the epidemiology, clinical features, and underlying causes of AS in a cohort of children presenting to the emergency department (ED). Our second aim was to identify clinical features associated with a significant risk of underlying neurological emergencies (NEs)...
April 2, 2021: European Journal of Paediatric Neurology: EJPN