M710: Brain
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-27T07:51:50Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-11-27T07:51:50Z | |
| dc.description | Clinical history : A 50 year old male with a melanoma of the nasopharynx and later recurred in the nasopharynx and presented with blindness in the right eye. | |
| dc.description | the patient developed pyogenic meningitis which was treated and only later developed blindness in the left eye prior to death. | |
| dc.description | Autopsy findings : 1. Malignant melanoma of the nasopharynx with infiltration to the cranium and orbit. | |
| dc.description | 2. Infiltration of the base of the brain with perforation to the tumor and an abcess in the last part of the left fronto-parietal lobe. | |
| dc.description | The abcess had broken into the lateral ventricle with acute ependymitis and acute meningitis but the exudate had clogged the foramen of Monroe. | |
| dc.description | Diagnosis: Distribution of a melanoma of the nasopharynx to the base of the brain with cerebral abscess and infiltration in the ventricular cavities | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/106472 | |
| dc.title | M710: Brain |