Unilateral hyperhidrosis secondary to brainstem meningioma producing mass effect

Dermatol Online J. 2019 Nov 15;25(11):13030/qt905497s9.

Abstract

Unilateral hyperhidrosis of neurological origin has been associated with head trauma, cerebral palsy, spinal cord injury, peripheral neuropathy, lesions of the hypothalamus, and cerebral or brainstem strokes. In this report, we describe a 61-year-old man with isolated sweating on the left side of his entire body. A right-sided brainstem meningioma producing mass effect is suspected as the underlying etiology.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Brain / diagnostic imaging
  • Brain Stem Neoplasms / complications*
  • Brain Stem Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Humans
  • Hyperhidrosis / etiology*
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Meningeal Neoplasms / complications*
  • Meningeal Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Meningioma / complications*
  • Meningioma / diagnostic imaging
  • Middle Aged