Isolated clival metastasis as the cause of abducens nerve palsy in a patient of breast carcinoma: A rare case report

Metastatic lesions to the clivus have been reported in various cancers including lung cancer, prostate carcinoma, skin melanoma, and hepatocellular carcinoma. There have been only a few reports of breast cancer presenting with isolated clival metastasis. We report a case of 35-year-old lady, who was...

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Autores principales: Kapoor, Akhil, Beniwal, Vimla, Beniwal, Surender, Mathur, Harsh, Kumar, Harvindra Singh
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Brief Communications
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4463567/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26044482
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.158096
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author Kapoor, Akhil
Beniwal, Vimla
Beniwal, Surender
Mathur, Harsh
Kumar, Harvindra Singh
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description Metastatic lesions to the clivus have been reported in various cancers including lung cancer, prostate carcinoma, skin melanoma, and hepatocellular carcinoma. There have been only a few reports of breast cancer presenting with isolated clival metastasis. We report a case of 35-year-old lady, who was known case of breast carcinoma presented with diplopia as the only sign of clival metastasis. The etiology was established by magnetic resonance imaging which showed an enhancing lesion in the clivus. The diagnosis of clival metastasis from breast cancer was confirmed by transsphenoidal biopsy.
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spelling pubmed-44635672015-06-26 Isolated clival metastasis as the cause of abducens nerve palsy in a patient of breast carcinoma: A rare case report Kapoor, Akhil Beniwal, Vimla Beniwal, Surender Mathur, Harsh Kumar, Harvindra Singh Indian J Ophthalmol Brief Communications Metastatic lesions to the clivus have been reported in various cancers including lung cancer, prostate carcinoma, skin melanoma, and hepatocellular carcinoma. There have been only a few reports of breast cancer presenting with isolated clival metastasis. We report a case of 35-year-old lady, who was known case of breast carcinoma presented with diplopia as the only sign of clival metastasis. The etiology was established by magnetic resonance imaging which showed an enhancing lesion in the clivus. The diagnosis of clival metastasis from breast cancer was confirmed by transsphenoidal biopsy. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015-04 /pmc/articles/PMC4463567/ /pubmed/26044482 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.158096 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Brief Communications
Kapoor, Akhil
Beniwal, Vimla
Beniwal, Surender
Mathur, Harsh
Kumar, Harvindra Singh
Isolated clival metastasis as the cause of abducens nerve palsy in a patient of breast carcinoma: A rare case report
title Isolated clival metastasis as the cause of abducens nerve palsy in a patient of breast carcinoma: A rare case report
title_full Isolated clival metastasis as the cause of abducens nerve palsy in a patient of breast carcinoma: A rare case report
title_fullStr Isolated clival metastasis as the cause of abducens nerve palsy in a patient of breast carcinoma: A rare case report
title_full_unstemmed Isolated clival metastasis as the cause of abducens nerve palsy in a patient of breast carcinoma: A rare case report
title_short Isolated clival metastasis as the cause of abducens nerve palsy in a patient of breast carcinoma: A rare case report
title_sort isolated clival metastasis as the cause of abducens nerve palsy in a patient of breast carcinoma: a rare case report
topic Brief Communications
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4463567/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26044482
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.158096
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