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A 59-year-old man with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) was on antidepressant treatment for years. Six months ago, he got a severe headache on the left side of his head, reported pain behind his left eye, diplopia and ptosis displayed on his left eyelid. The patient had mild migraine attacks occasionally. However, his previous headache was very intense when compared with earlier ones. By cranial MRI, a lesion (22x7 mm horizontally, 13x8 mm vertically) adjacent to carotid segment 4 (C4) of the left internal carotid artery was found. The lesion showed a hyperintense signal in contrast-enhanced T2-weighted images, which was the result of enhanced abnormal soft tissue extending through the orbital fissure and into the orbital apex. This did not cause compression on the optic nerve and there was slight bulging into the left cavernous sinus (figure 1). The patient's blood and cerebrospinal fluid biochemical parameters were within...
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