Metastatic carcinoma presenting as cranial nerve palsy.
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.
Kumudhan
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Department of ophthalmology, Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfermline, Scotland. kumudhan@hotmail.com
Jamieson
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Sanders
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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