Optic Nerve Neoplasms - Complications
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Visual outcome and tumor control after conformal radiotherapy for patients with optic nerve sheath meningioma.

2 May 2009 PURPOSE: Optic nerve sheath meningioma (ONSM) is a rare tumor that almost uniformly leads to visual dysfunction and even blindness without intervention. Because surgical extirpation carries a high risk of postoperative blindness, vision-sparing ... Read more...

Artery, vein, neither, both?

29 Apr 2009 Combined central retinal vein and central retinal artery occlusion is a rare complication of compressive or infiltrative optic nerve disease. In this case combined retinal arterial and venous occlusive disease was the presenting sign of metastatic ... Read more...

Optic nerve and chiasmal germinoma.

27 Feb 2009 A 15-year-old boy presented with visual acuity of 20/200 OD and no light perception OS. The anterior segment of the left eye showed a relative afferent pupillary defect. A large (4.5 x 4.5 x 2.0 mm) infiltrative optic nerve head lesion with dilated ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Optic Nerve Neoplasms - Complications'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Optic nerve sheath meningioma with perioptic cyst. 29 Jun 2009
• Visual outcome and tumor control after conformal radiotherapy for patients with optic nerve sheath meningioma. 2 May 2009
• Artery, vein, neither, both? 29 Apr 2009
• Optic nerve and chiasmal germinoma. 27 Feb 2009
• [Optic nerve melanocytoma--associated with age related macular degeneration] 30 Dec 2008
• 60-year old woman with extra-axial frontal mass. 30 Dec 2008
• Blindness from multiple cerebral gliomas mimicking metastatic brain disease. 29 Nov 2008
• Optic nerve sheath meningiomas--non-surgical treatment. 16 Nov 2008
• Optochiasmal apoplexy due to a cavernoma. 28 Sep 2008
• [Fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy in optic nerve sheath meningioma] 29 Jun 2008
• Assessment of chemotherapeutic response in children with proptosis due to optic nerve glioma. 20 Dec 2007
• Mid-aortic syndrome with renovascular hypertension and multisystem involvement in a girl with familiar neurofibromatosis von Recklinghausen type 1. 29 Nov 2007
• Bilateral central retinal artery occlusion associated with leukemic optic neuropathy. 29 Sep 2007
• Tram track sign. 9 Jul 2007
• Optic disc melanocytoma and glaucoma. 29 Jun 2007
• Clinical without histopathological manifestations of inflammation in a patient with primary intraorbital optic nerve sheath meningioma. 30 May 2007
• Optic nerve compartment syndrome in a patient with optic nerve sheath meningioma. 29 Apr 2007
• All in the timing. 30 Mar 2007
• [Cavernous angioma of the second cranial nerve and chiasmatic apoplexy] 30 Jan 2007
• Bilateral metastasis to the retina, choroids and optic nerve from breast cancer: a clinicopathological case. 30 Dec 2006

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Technical information about 'Optic Nerve Neoplasms'

Definition: Benign and malignant neoplasms that arise from the optic nerve or its sheath. OPTIC NERVE GLIOMA is the most common histologic type. Optic nerve neoplasms tend to cause unilateral visual loss and an afferent pupillary defect and may spread via neural pathways to the brain.

Descriptor UI: D019574

Alternative terms: Optic Nerve Neoplasms; Neoplasm, Optic Nerve; Optic Nerve Neoplasm; Neoplasms, Optic Nerve; Optic Nerve Sheath Neoplasm; Optic Nerve Sheath Tumors; Malignant Optic Nerve Neoplasm; Tumor, Optic Nerve, Malignant; Tumor, Malignant, Optic Nerve; Malignant Optic Nerve Tumor; Optic Nerve Tumor, Malignant; Malignant Optic Nerve Sheath Neoplasms; Optic Nerve Sheath Neoplasms, Malignant; Optic Nerve Sheath Tumors, Malignant; Malignant Optic Nerve Sheath Tumors; Benign Optic Nerve Neoplasm; Neoplasm, Benign, Optic Nerve; Tumor, Optic Nerve, Benign; Optic Nerve Neoplasm, Benign; Tumor, Benign, Optic Nerve; Benign Optic Nerve Tumor; Neoplasm, Optic Nerve, Benign; Benign Optic Nerve Sheath Neoplasms; Optic Nerve Sheath Tumors, Benign; Benign Optic Nerve Sheath Tumors;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; blood supply; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; secondary; secretion; surgery; therapy; ultrastructure; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; chemistry; virology;

Tree Number: C04.588.614.300.600; C04.588.614.596.240.240; C10.292.225.800; C10.292.700.500; C10.551.360.500; C11.640.544;

History Note: 98

Technical Notes: coordinate IM with histologic type of neoplasm (IM)