Case Report
Unusual Spread of Renal Cell Carcinoma to the Clivus with Cranial Nerve Deficit
Table 2
Cases of clival metastasis available from PubMed (and other databases) along with the primary and presentation.
| Author(s) | Year of reporting | Primary | Presentation |
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Turner et al. [6]
| 1980 | Ewing’s sarcoma (femur) | Diplopia | Fumino et al. [4] | 1998 | Renal cell carcinoma | Diplopia | Ulubas et al. [7] | 2005 | Lung cancer (SCC) | Headache |
Escarda et al. [8]
| 2006 | Hepatocellular carcinoma | Diplopia | Malloy [9] | 2007 | Prostate cancer (adenocarcinoma) | Diplopia | Marchese-Ragona et al. [10] | 2008 | Cancer of the tonsil (SCC) | Diplopia | Pallini et al. (case series) [2] | 2009 | Lung cancer (adenocarcinoma) () Lung cancer (SCC) () Prostate cancer (adenocarcinoma) () Melanoma (skin) () | Diplopia |
Kolias et al. [11]
| 2010 | Prostate cancer (adenocarcinoma) | Multiple cranial neuropathy |
Ng et al. [12]
| 2011 | Breast cancer | Ophthalmoplegia | Fukushima et al. [13] | 2012 | Stomach cancer (signet ring cell carcinoma) | Headache and diplopia | Bohnstedt et al. [14] | 2012 | Soft tissue myoepithelium (left hip) | Ophthalmoplegia | Kendre et al. [15] | 2014 | Rectal carcinoma | Diplopia | Mendelson et al. [5] | 2015 | Renal cell cancer | Diplopia | Kapoor et al. [16] | 2015 | Breast cancer | Diplopia | Rao et al. [17] | 2015 | Cervical cancer | Headache and vomiting | Lee et al. [18] | 2015 | Gastroadenocarcinoma | Diplopia | Okudo et al. (present case) | 2016 | Renal cell carcinoma | Diplopia |
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SCC: squamous cell carcinoma. This table was adapted with permission from Kapoor et al. [16].
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