Medulloblastoma presenting as blindness of rapid evolution. A case report

J Clin Neuroophthalmol. 1991 Dec;11(4):250-3.

Abstract

An 18-year-old man reported rapid decrease of visual acuity that progressed to total blindness in 1 month. Computed tomographic scanning showed two neoplastic masses: a large one, intra- and suprasellar, and a smaller cerebellar nodule. Histologically, the former proved to be a large metastasis of the small cerebellar medulloblastoma, which infiltrated and compressed the chiasm. Direct compression of the optic pathways by metastasis of a medulloblastoma is a rare event.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Blindness / etiology*
  • Cerebellar Neoplasms / complications*
  • Cerebellar Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Medulloblastoma / complications*
  • Medulloblastoma / diagnosis
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Visual Acuity