Surviving Brain Tumor in Pregnancy.
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2015-04
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A young woman of 22 years attended Obstetrics OPD with the complaints with sudden onset of severe
headache and forward protrusion of the right eye ball for four months, it was painless and progressive in
nature. On Ophthalmoscopy examination, she was found to have vision 6\6 on left and 6\9 with Relative
Afferent Pupillary Defect (RAPD) in on right side. Bilateral extra ocular muscles were normal. MRI
showed a well defined, heterogeneous extra axial mass lesion seen in right temporal region with both
intracranial and intra orbital components suggestive of sphenoid wing meningioma. The patient underwent
surgery and the histopathology proved the diagnosis as meningioma. The case of epidermoid brain tumor
in a young female with pregnancy is reported for its unusual presentation.
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Pregnancy, Sphenoid Wing Meningioma, Epidermoid Brain Tumor
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Kanta Swarn, Khajuria Neeru, Hak Jyoti. Surviving Brain Tumor in Pregnancy. JK Science Journal of Medical Education and Research. 2015 Apr-June; 17(2): 106-107.