Surviving Brain Tumor in Pregnancy.

ABSTRACT

A young woman of 22 years attended Obstetrics OPD with the complaints with sudden onset of severe headache and forward protrusion of the right eye ball for four months, it was painless and progressive in nature. On Ophthalmoscopy examination, she was found to have vision 6\6 on left and 6\9 with Relative Afferent Pupillary Defect (RAPD) in on right side. Bilateral extra ocular muscles were normal. MRI showed a well defined, heterogeneous extra axial mass lesion seen in right temporal region with both intracranial and intra orbital components suggestive of sphenoid wing meningioma. The patient underwent surgery and the histopathology proved the diagnosis as meningioma. The case of epidermoid brain tumor in a young female with pregnancy is reported for its unusual presentation.