Author/Year

Age/sex

Naevus of Ota

Site of intracranial lesion

Presenting symptoms

Excision

RT/chemo

Outcome

Enriquez 1973 [20]

43/M

N/A

Pineal, meningeal

N/A

No

No/No

Death

Sang DN 1977 [21]

58/M

Left

Right frontal

Headache, incontinence, left CN7 palsy

No

Yes/No

Mass similar with no

progression 6 months later

Horsey 1980 [22]

37/F

Left

Left parietal,

left temporal bone

Headache, CN6 palsy, nausea, vomiting

Total (parietal)

Yes/No

No recurrence

Sagar HJ 1983 [23]

23/F

Right

Right temporal

Partial seizure

Total

No/No

No recurrence

Kubato 1988 [24]

77/M

Left

Left temporal

Disturbed consciousness, left hemiparesis

Subtotal

No/Yes

Death 3 weeks post op

Hartmann LC 1989 [25]

41/F

Right

Right middle fossa

Headache

Total

No/No

Recur 6 months later.

Observe. FU 1 year post op unchanged

Johnson RR 1999 [26]

42/M

Left

Left occipital

Headache, right upper

quadrantonopia, scotoma

Subtotal

Yes/No

Static residual mass 3 months post-op

Azar 2010 [27]

21/M

Left

Right parietal, right

retrobulbar, right

cavernous sinus

Left hemiparesis + headache

Total (parietal)

Yes/Yes

Melanoma dissemination