Neuroblastoma Associated with Bilateral Ptosis: Report of a Rare Condition

Authors

  • Alireza Askari
  • Kourosh Goudarzi Pour
  • Parisa Nejat Mahmud
  • Peyman Eshghi
  • Roxana Aghakhani
Abstract:

Neuroblastoma is a common tumor in pediatric cancer and which might present with usual or unusual clinical features. One of the rare clinical finding of neuroblastoma is paraneoplastic syndromes. We report a two year-old girl with presentation of bilateral ptosis and abdominal pain which was diagnosed as having neuroblastoma. Our case is a very rare case of neuroblastoma accompanied by bilateral ptosis as a paraneoplastic syndrome . Keywords: Neuroblastoma, paraneoplastic syndrome, bilateral, ptosis.

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volume 6  issue None

pages  55- 57

publication date 2013-11

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