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Lint: perioptic-neuritis

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"Optic perineuritis was first described by W Edmunds and JB Lawford in 1883 3,10."

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"Additionally, patients may also have clinical features of concurrent optic neuritis (e.g. relative afferent pupillary defect, dyschromatopsia), orbital inflammation (e.g. external ophthalmoplegia, exophthalmos, ptosis), and/or intraocular inflammation (e.g. scleritis, episcleritis) 1-4."

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"connective tissue disorders (e.g. systemic lupus erythematosus)"

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"inflammatory bowel disease (e.g. Crohn disease)"

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"paraneoplastic (e.g. anti-CRMP-5 optic neuropathy)"

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"vasculitis (e.g. arteritic anterior ischaemic optic neuropathy of giant cell arteritis, granulomatosis with polyangiitis, Behçet disease)"

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"viral infection (e.g. herpes simplex, herpes zoster 1)"

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"medications (e.g. immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy)"

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