title: Metastatic carcinoma presenting as cranial nerve palsy.
abstract: Adult onset, multiple oculo-motor nerve palsies are usually due to neoplasia and trauma. We report two cases whose initial presenting sign was oculo-motor cranial nerve palsy and were later found to have metastatic carcinoma.
authors.affiliation: Department of ophthalmology, Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfermline, Scotland. kumudhan@hotmail.com
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kumudhan
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jamieson
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sanders
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000556:secondary*; D003389:Cranial Nerve Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D004172:Diplopia / Q000209:etiology*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms; D008175:Lung Neoplasms; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged