Author/Year

Age/sex

Naevus of Ota

Site of intracranial lesion

Presenting symptoms

Excision

RT/chemo

Outcome

Botticelli 1983 [7]

43/F

Left

Leftmeckel’s cave.

Left CN4 palsy, left

ptosis, enophthalmos

Total

Yes/No

Recur 2 years later,

subtotal excision + RT. No more recurrence

Moon WS 1992 [8]

53/M

Right

Right parietooccipital, left frontal

Right hemiparesis,

vomiting

Total

No/No

Recurred

Piercecchi-Marti 2002 [9]

25/M

Right

Right frontoparietal

Strabismus, headache, grandma seizure

Total

No/No

No recurrence

Rahimi 2003 [10]

17/M

Left

Left parietal

Headache, blindness

Total

No/No

N/A

Rutten 2005 [11]

37/F

Right

Right olfactory groove

Headache, loss visual acuity

Total

No/No

Multifocal recurrence, total excision à RT. No more recurrence

Hino K 2005 [12]

75/F

Right

Right anterior clinoid process, intraorbital

Decreased vision,

disturbed consciousness

Partial

No/No

No recurrence

(but apallic state)

Hao Pan 2011 [13]

36/M

Right

Right cavernous sinus

Headache, ptosis

Subtotal

Yes/No

No recurrence

Wu C 2011 [14]

36/M

Right

Right cavernous sinus

N/A

Total

No/No

N/A

Munoz-hidalgo 2014

[15]

15/M

Right

Right temporal

Headache, vomiting

Total

No/No

No recurrence

Hongxu Chen 2015 [16]

20/F

Left

Left cerebellar

hemisphere

Headache

Total

No/No

N/A

Mohammad Samadian 2015 [17]

19/M

Left

Left temporal

Seizure

Total

No/No

No recurrence