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[Painful ophthalmoplegia secondary to larynx carcinoma]
M L Alvarez Suárez1, M Alvarez-Buylla Camino, J J Barbón García
1Hospital Alvarez-Buylla, Mieres, Asturias, España.
Archivos De La Sociedad Espanola De Oftalmologia
|February 7, 2003
Abstract
Case Report:
We present a case of metastatic larynx cancer in the cavernous sinus. It presented itself as a right sixth cranial nerve palsy which progressed into a painful ophthalmoplegia with normal CT and RNM in its early stages.
Discussion:
We must suspect a cavernous sinus invasion in patients with cranial nerve palsies and with a history of malignancy, despite negative radiologic findings. Tumoral invasion of the skull base has been described in pharyngeal neoplasms but it is exceptional in larynx carcinomas.