Abstract
An 80-year-old woman was evaluated for diplopia and blurred vision of the right eye associated with a maxillary ameloblastic carcinoma that had presented as an ameloblastoma 11 years earlier. Neuroimaging revealed ethmoid tumour involving the right orbital apex, cavernous sinus, optic nerve, and middle cranial fossa. After subtotal tumour resection and radiosurgery, ophthalmoplegia, right optic neuropathy, and right trigeminal neuropathy progressed despite initially stable tumour appearance on subsequent neuroimaging. Maxillary ameloblastic carcinoma is a rare tumour that can arise de novo or from a pre-existing ameloblastoma. Little or nothing has been previously reported on this tumour and its associated progressive neuro-ophthalmic deficits.
| Original language | American English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 280-283 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Neuro-Ophthalmology |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue number | 5-6 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Oct 2011 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Ophthalmology
- Clinical Neurology
Keywords
- Ameloblastic carcinoma
- Ophthalmoplegia
- Optic neuropathy