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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Sujit Routray, M.D. [2]
Overview
Common physical examination findings of oligodendroglioma include nystagmus, papilledema, esotropia, visual field loss, altered mental status, aphasia, ataxia, hemiparesis, tremors, and focal neurological deficits.[1][2][3][4][5]
Physical Examination
Common physical examination findings of oligodendroglioma include:[1][2][3][4][5]
HEENT
- Nystagmus
- Ophthalmoscopic exam may be abnormal with findings of papilledema, esotropia, and visual field loss
Neurological
- Altered mental status
- Aphasia
- Ataxia
- Hemiparesis
- Tremor
- Focal neurological deficits
- Corticospinal tract defect
- Spasticity
- Hyperreflexia
- Loss of the ability to perform fine movements
- Extensor plantar response (Babinski sign present)
- Spinocerebellar tract defect
- Cranioneuropathies
- Bilateral 3rd cranial nerve palsy
- Corticospinal tract defect
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Raciti-Daurio C, Caruso J (1990). "Oligodendroglioma--a case presentation". Optom Vis Sci. 67 (1): 56–8. PMID 2308753.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Douay X, Daems-Monpeurt C, Labalette P, Blond S, Petit H (1997). "[Bilateral 3rd cranial nerve palsy disclosing oligodendroglioma]". Rev Neurol (Paris). 153 (6–7): 430–2. PMID 9684012.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Eskandar EN, Loeffler JS, O'Neill AM, Hunter GJ, Louis DN (2004). "Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Weekly clinicopathological exercises. Case 33-2004. A 34-year-old man with a seizure and a frontal-lobe brain lesion". N Engl J Med. 351 (18): 1875–82. doi:10.1056/NEJMcpc049025. PMID 15509821.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Mittelbronn M, Wolff M, Bültmann E, Nägele T, Capper D, Beck R; et al. (2005). "Disseminating anaplastic brainstem oligodendroglioma associated with allelic loss in the tumor suppressor candidate region D19S246 of chromosome 19 mimicking an inflammatory central nervous system disease in a 9-year-old boy". Hum Pathol. 36 (7): 854–7. doi:10.1016/j.humpath.2005.05.017. PMID 16084959.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Krauss JK, Paduch T, Mundinger F, Seeger W (1995). "Parkinsonism and rest tremor secondary to supratentorial tumours sparing the basal ganglia". Acta Neurochir (Wien). 133 (1–2): 22–9. PMID 8561031.