A patient with subacute onset of ophthalmoplegia, papilledema, and proptosis.
A young man presented with headache, proptosis, and asymmetric ophthalmoplegia. He was found to have a mass in an unusual area of the brain. The differential diagnosis, diagnostic testing, pathology, treatment, and prognosis of this rare tumor are discussed in detail.
Burakgazi
Ahmet Z
AZ
Department of Neurology, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA.
Wang
Carolyn
C
Burger
Kathleen
K
D002551:Cerebral Ventricle Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005094:Exophthalmos / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D009886:Ophthalmoplegia / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D010211:Papilledema / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D011379:Prognosis; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D055815:Young Adult