Child with cavernous sinus meningioma shows presence of?: (A) Ptosis left eye, (B) Phthisis bulbi right eye, (C) Exophthalmos right eye, (D) Bell sign left eye
Answer is A. 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.