We read with interest your account of the potential cutaneous side effects of phenytoin
therapy in a patient who underwent debulking therapy of an olfactory groove meningioma
one year previously.
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As in the reported case many patients who undergo intracranial surgery are concomitantly
prescribed prophylactic anti-epileptic therapy and it is useful to highlight the potential
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Published online: January 24, 2012
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- Recognising phenytoin therapy as a cause of thickening of the eyelids and paranasal regionJournal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic SurgeryVol. 64Issue 12
- PreviewWe present a 55 year old female, with gradual painless thickening of her eyelids and nose over several months, who requested aesthetic surgery to correct these changes. One-year prior to this she had undergone a craniotomy and debulking of an olfactory groove meningioma and commenced on prophylactic phenytoin therapy. On examination she was found to have a widened nasal bridge and soft-tissue thickening of the glabellar region and medial canthi. (Figure 1a). Her paranasal and eyelid thickening was presumed to be phenytoin-related and under the supervision of her neurologist this was tailed off.
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