Child with cavernous sinus meningioma shows presence of?
Ptosis left eye
Phthisis bulbi right eye
Exophthalmos right eye
Bell sign left eye
Ans. (a) Ptosis left eye.* Cavernous sinus meningioma can impinge on oculomotor nerve leading to paralysis of Levator palpebral superioris and can explain the ptosis seen in the image on the left eye.* Bell sign is seen in seventh nerve paralysis, and leads to up-rolling of eyeball on forcible closure of eye on same side of seventh nerve palsy.
Graves' Ophthalmopathy, Tumors, Fractures, and Surgery