Ocular motor apraxia associated with intracranial lipoma.
Congenital ocular motor apraxia is rarely associated with brain tumors. A 10-month-old girl with normal vertical eye movements and head thrusting to initiate horizontal saccades is presented. CT brain scan revealed a midline posterior fossa mass and histopathology confirmed the clinical diagnosis of lipoma. Unlike previously described cases of posterior fossa brain tumors associated with congenital ocular motor apraxia, this patient showed persistent ocular motor apraxia despite complete resection of the tumor.
Summers
C G
CG
Department of Ophthalmology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455.
MacDonald
J T
JT
Wirtschafter
J D
JD
D001072:Apraxias / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008067:Lipoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D009801:Oculomotor Muscles; D011184:Postoperative Period; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed