Anxiety Disorder and Alternating Bilateral Ptosis as the First Symptoms of Diabetes: A Case Report

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Purpose and Significance of Study: This is the report of a rare case of diabetes in a 63-year-old woman, wherein anxiety disorder and alternating bilateral ptosis appeared as the first symptoms. The authors suggest a comprehensive treatment in such cases, which may help clinicians in handling similar cases in the future.

Fit with Scope of Journal: The manuscript is of very high interest for the journal Case Reports and Series in Surgery.

 

o   There are a few very minor errors in the manuscript (already corrected in the galley proof) which are listed below –

 

·       A common issue is that “alternate ptosis” must be replaced with “alternating ptosis” throughout.

In the Abstract –

  Under Case Presentation –

·       In the last sentence, “period of” must be removed, “,” must be inserted after “treatment”, “anti-anxiety” must be replaced with “anxiety management”, and “has been actively taken” must be removed.

In the Introduction –

·       In the last sentence, “an” must be inserted before “anxiety”.

In the Case Presentation –

  In the 1^st paragraph –

·       In the 4^th sentence, “,” must be inserted after “recurred”.

  In the last paragraph –

·       In the last sentence, “the” must be inserted before “recent”.

In the Discussion –

  In the 2^nd paragraph –

·       In the 1^st sentence, “,” must be inserted after “ptosis”, and “the” must be inserted before “pupillary”.

·       In the 2^nd sentence, “,” must be inserted after “oculomotor nerve”.

·       In the 6^th sentence, “bilateral” must instead be inserted before “ptosis”.

  In the last paragraph –

·       In the last sentence, “with” must be replaced with “including”, “anti-anxiety” must be replaced with “anxiety management”, and “taken” must be replaced with “pursued”.

Author Info

Mei-lan Su Ming-hong Zhang Song Wang Zhong-Hui Zou Zu-bin Yin

Corresponding Author

Song Wang
Department of Stomach/Thyroid/Vascular Surgery, Chongqing Three Gorges Central Hospital, Chong Qing, China

Article Info

Article Type

Case Report

Publication history

Received: Fri 10, Apr 2020
Accepted: Fri 24, Apr 2020
Published: Thu 30, Apr 2020

Copyright

© 2023 Song Wang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.CRSS.2020.01.07