CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA PRESENTING WITH BILATERAL OPTIC ATROPHY
Article Sidebar
Main Article Content
Abstract
A young pre-pubertal female patient presented to the medical department with bilateral marked loss of vision. She also complained of facial and bipedal edema in the near past though other features of hypothyroidism were lacking in her history. She had a strong history of mental disorders in the family. General physical examination was unremarkable. Abdominal examination revealed hepatomegaly. Central nervous system examination showed bilateral optic atrophy and an up-going left plantar response. Baseline investigations were normal. Thyroid functions suggested sub-clinical hypothyroidism. MRI scan of the brain and orbits revealed a locally invasive cystic lesion with solid components, encasing the major structures consistent with craniopharyngioma. Partial excision of the lesion was carried out, and biopsy report confirmed it to be an adamantinoma variety of craniopharyngioma.
Article Details
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
All articles published in the Journal of Medical Sciences (JMS) are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0). Under the CC BY 4.0 license, author(s) retain the ownership of the copyright publishing rights without restrictions for their content, and allow others to copy, use, print, share, modify, and distribute the content of the article even for commercial purposes as long as the original authors and the journal are properly cited. No permission is required from the author/s or the publishers for this purpose. Appropriate attribution can be provided by simply citing the original article. The corresponding author has the right to grant on behalf of all authors, a worldwide license to JMS and its licensees in all forms, formats, and media (whether known now or created in the future), The corresponding author must certify and warrant the authorship and proprietorship and should declare that he/she has not granted or assigned any of the article’s rights to any other person or body.
The corresponding author must compensate the journal for any costs, expenses, or damages that the JMS may incur as a result of any breach of these warranties including any intentional or unintentional errors, omissions, copyright issues, or plagiarism. The editorial office must be notified upon submission if an article contains materials like text, pictures, tables, or graphs from other copyrighted sources. The JMS reserves the right to remove any images, figures, tables, or other content, from any article, whether before or after publication, if concerns are raised about copyright, license, or permissions and the authors are unable to provide documentation confirming that appropriate permissions were obtained for publication of the content in question.