title: Cerebellar astrocytoma presenting with acute esotropia in a 5 year-old girl. Case report.
abstract: We encountered a 5-year-old girl with acute onset of alternating, comitant esotropia in the absence of diplopia and other neurologic findings. She did not have any refractive error and seen bilateral papilledemas in fundus examination, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the head was performed. A large cerebellar astrocytoma and moderate hydrocephalus was identified and successfully resected. The onset of comitant esotropia in a child can be the first sign of a cerebellar tumor without any other neurologic signs and symptoms.
authors.affiliation: Ophthalmology Department, Istanbul University Cerrahpasa Medical School, Cerrahpasa Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Dikici
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Cicik
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Akman
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kendiroğlu
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tolun
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D001254:Astrocytoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D002528:Cerebellar Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004948:Esotropia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014792:Visual Acuity