Painful Sixth Cranial Nerve Palsy Caused by a Malignant Trigeminal Nerve Sheath Tumor

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Title Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology, March 2007, Volume 27, Issue 1
Date 2007-03
Language eng
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Publication Type Journal Article
Collection Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library: Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology Archives: https://novel.utah.edu/jno/
Publisher Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
Holding Institution Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah
Rights Management © North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society
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Setname ehsl_novel_jno
ID 225639
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6477h01

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Title Painful Sixth Cranial Nerve Palsy Caused by a Malignant Trigeminal Nerve Sheath Tumor
Creator Rodriguez, JA; Hedges, TR; Heilman, CB; Strominger, MB; Laver, NM
Affiliation New England Eye Center, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA.
Abstract A 17-year-old woman developed a sixth cranial nerve palsy from a malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor of the trigeminal nerve. This case is unusual in that the principal symptom was diplopia stemming from a sixth cranial nerve palsy. Pain was mild, and trigeminal function was preserved. Imaging evidence of rapid growth of the cavernous sinus mass gave rise to an initial impression that the cause might be inflammatory. Treatment with gamma knife stereotactic radiosurgery produced some improvement in sixth cranial nerve function and reduction in tumor size over a follow-up period of 9 months.
Subject Abducens Nerve Diseases, diagnosis; Abducens Nerve Diseases, etiology; Adolescent; Biopsy; Cranial Nerve Neoplasms, complications; Cranial Nerve Neoplasms, diagnosis; Cranial Nerve Neoplasms, surgery; Diagnosis, Differential; Disease Progression; Female; Humans; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Pain, diagnosis; Pain, etiology; Radiosurgery; Tomography, X-Ray Computed; Trigeminal Nerve Diseases, complications; Trigeminal Nerve Diseases, diagnosis; Trigeminal Nerve Diseases, surgery
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Format application/pdf
Publication Type Journal Article
Collection Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library: Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology Archives: https://novel.utah.edu/jno/
Publisher Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
Holding Institution Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah
Rights Management © North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society
Setname ehsl_novel_jno
ID 225625
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6477h01/225625