Case Report
A Rare Case of Bilateral Duane’s Retraction Syndrome with Crocodile Tears, Hearing Loss, and Klippel Feil Syndrome (Wildervanck Syndrome)
Ravichandran R*, Lenin Shankar P and Ravi Kumar V
Department of Neurology, Thanjavur Government Medical College, Tamilnadu, India
*Corresponding author: Ravichandran R, Department of Neurology, Thanjavur Government Medical College, Tamilnadu, India
Article Information: Submission: 13/06/2023; Accepted: 11/07/2023; Published: 15/07/2023
Copyright: © 2023 Ravichandran R, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
The Duane syndrome is a strabismus syndrome which is characterized by congenital non-progressive horizontal ophthalmoplegia which primarily affects the abducens nerve. Approximately 70% of the individuals with the Duane syndrome have an isolated disease and 30% of cases are associated with other congenital anomalies. A triad of Klippel–Feil anomaly Duane retraction syndrome, and hearing deficits is Wildervanck syndrome the estimated the prevalence is less than 1/1,000,000. We are presenting here, 26 year old male with a very rare case of bilateral Duane syndrome with hearing loss and klippel feil anomaly possible Wildervanck syndrome along with
addition feature of crocodile tears.
Keywords: Case report; Duane’s retraction syndrome; Klippelfeil syndrome; Wildervanck syndrome