Keep Your Eye On the Ball (slideshow)

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Identifier walsh_2017_s2_c1-slideshow
Title Keep Your Eye On the Ball (slideshow)
Creator Danielle Rudich; Eugenia Vining; Kenneth Allen; Joel Geffin; Mena Mansour; Robert Lesser
Affiliation (DR) (JG) (RL) The Eye Care Group, Waterbury, Connecticut; (EV) (MM) Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; (KA) Waterbury Hospital, Waterbury, Connecticut
Subject 6th nerve palsy, trigeminal, Tumor, Diplopia
History In March 2014, an 82-year-old male developed left sided facial pain and numbness over his left temple and periorbital region. He was treated for a presumed dental infection with no response. MRI brain in July 2014; showed only microvascular white matter changes.
Disease/Diagnosis Desmoplastic Melanoma with perineural tumor spread along the left fifth and sixth cranial nerves.
Date 2017-04
References 1. Andreevscaia O et al. Diagnostic Challenge of Dermoplastic Melanoma. Rare Tumors, 8(1), 5713, 2016. 2. Barnett S et al. Perineural extension of cutaneous desmoplastic melanoma mimicking an intracranial malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor. J Neurosurg, 115, 273-277, 2011. 3. Frydenlund N et al. Desmoplastic Melanoma, Neurotropism, and Neurotropin Receptors - What We Know and What We Do Not. Adv Anat Pathol, 22, 227-41, 2015. 4. Erkan et al. En Bloc Resection of Desmoplastic Neurotrophic Melanoma with Perineural Invasion of the Intracranial Trigeminal and Intraparotid Facial Nerve: Case Reports and Review of the Literature. J Neurol Surg Rep, 77, e8-e12, 2016.
Language eng
Format application/pdf
Type Text
Source 49th Annual Frank Walsh Society Meeting
Relation is Part of NANOS Annual Meeting 2017: Frank B. Walsh Session 2
Collection Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library - Walsh Session Annual Meeting Archives https://novel.utah.edu/Walsh/index3.html
Publisher Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah
Holding Institution Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah, 10 N 1900 E SLC, UT 84112-6137
Rights Management Copyright 2017. For further information regarding the rights to this collection, please visit: https://NOVEL.utah.edu/about/copyright
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