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Kebutaan pada Karsinoma Nasofaring (Blindness in Nasopharygeal Carcinoma)
ABSTRACT
Background: The common complaint in almost half & nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients was a lump in the neck. Neurological symptoms occcured less frequently, whereas blindness occurred ir only less than one percent of cases. Case report: A 26 year-old male complained about headache. nasal voice, and blindness in right eye since a month ago. Examination found mass in the right nasal cavity, right neck lymph nodes enlargement damage to the right oculomotor (01),trochlear (IV). trigeminal (nand abducens (VI) nerve. and right opticus nerve (II). On fundoscopy, right macular reflex decreased. On CT scan there was right nasopharyngeal mass extending to intannia and right intraorbital soaces. Summary: There was a direct infiltration of NPC into surrounding and intracrania, structures. Unilateral dimness may be caused by exoansion to middle cereoral fossa ano orbita. It can aIso be caused by optic nerve compression from surroAding tumor tissue.
Key words: Nasophayngeal carcinoma, unilateral blindness. optic nerve
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