Complete Eye Ophthalmoplegia: the unusual initial presentation of Leptomeningeal Carcinomatosis

Ophthalmoplegia is a paralysis or weakness of extraocular muscles that have a variety of different etiologies including and not limited to Leptomeningeal Carcinomatosis (LC). LC is caused mainly by metastatic cancers and can cause a wide variety of symptoms. We present a case of LC with no preexisti...

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Autores principales: Chauhan, Lakshpaul, Mubarik, Ateeq, Eddib, Abdulmagid, Eid, Mohammad, Vaziri, Ali, Muddassir, Salman
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6735305/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31528289
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20009666.2019.1640016
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author Chauhan, Lakshpaul
Mubarik, Ateeq
Eddib, Abdulmagid
Eid, Mohammad
Vaziri, Ali
Muddassir, Salman
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description Ophthalmoplegia is a paralysis or weakness of extraocular muscles that have a variety of different etiologies including and not limited to Leptomeningeal Carcinomatosis (LC). LC is caused mainly by metastatic cancers and can cause a wide variety of symptoms. We present a case of LC with no preexisting condition who presented with a unilateral ophthalmoplegia as initial presentation who was found to have LC secondary to large B-cell lymphoma.
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spelling pubmed-67353052019-09-16 Complete Eye Ophthalmoplegia: the unusual initial presentation of Leptomeningeal Carcinomatosis Chauhan, Lakshpaul Mubarik, Ateeq Eddib, Abdulmagid Eid, Mohammad Vaziri, Ali Muddassir, Salman J Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect Case Report Ophthalmoplegia is a paralysis or weakness of extraocular muscles that have a variety of different etiologies including and not limited to Leptomeningeal Carcinomatosis (LC). LC is caused mainly by metastatic cancers and can cause a wide variety of symptoms. We present a case of LC with no preexisting condition who presented with a unilateral ophthalmoplegia as initial presentation who was found to have LC secondary to large B-cell lymphoma. Taylor & Francis 2019-09-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6735305/ /pubmed/31528289 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20009666.2019.1640016 Text en © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group on behalf of Greater Baltimore Medical Center. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Chauhan, Lakshpaul
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Eddib, Abdulmagid
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Vaziri, Ali
Muddassir, Salman
Complete Eye Ophthalmoplegia: the unusual initial presentation of Leptomeningeal Carcinomatosis
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