Recurrent scintillating scotoma and homonymous hemianopia due to metastatic melanoma

J Clin Neuroophthalmol. 1987 Sep;7(3):155-60.

Abstract

Acute left homonymous hemianopia and recurrent scintillating scotoma occurred in a 43-year-old woman due to metastases from a cutaneous malignant melanoma that had been resected 5 years previously. Computed tomography initially demonstrated small, probably embolic, areas of occipital lobe infarction. Five months after the onset of her visual symptoms, massive cerebral hemorrhage occurred from a large right occipital lobe tumor that had not been present initially. Autopsy demonstrated malignant melanoma. Visual symptoms related to tumor embolization and/or cerebral hemorrhage may be the presenting features of metastatic cutaneous malignant melanoma.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Brain Neoplasms / pathology
  • Brain Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Female
  • Hemianopsia / pathology*
  • Humans
  • Melanoma / pathology
  • Melanoma / secondary*
  • Migraine Disorders / pathology
  • Occipital Lobe / pathology*
  • Recurrence
  • Scotoma / pathology*
  • Skin Neoplasms / pathology*