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Dancing Eye syndrome
What are the causes?
There is also an adult variant of the condition which is almost always associated with particular cancers. In children the condition may occur with no clear trigger or it may follow a viral illness or it may be associated with a tumour called a neuroblastoma. Whenever Dancing Eye syndrome is diagnosed it is therefore important that tests are undertaken to exclude neuroblastoma. If neuroblastoma is present it is usually, but not always, a benign variant of the tumour. Treatment of the neuroblastoma, whilst important in its own right, does not appear to alter the outcome of the Dancing Eye syndrome.
Because of the association with preceding infection and with neuroblastoma, it is thought likely that Dancing Eye syndrome is the result of an immune or allergic cross-reaction in the brain although there is no definite proof of this as yet.
Background
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