A patient presented with facial diplegia, occulomotor paresis, ataxia, areflexia and albuminocytologic dissociation. Such clinical features mimicked Fisher's syndrome. In fact, these signs were due to two metastases, one in the pons, the other in the right frontal lobe.
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