Optic Nerve Neoplasms - Diagnosis
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

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...

Pilocytic astrocytoma of the optic pathway: a tumour deriving from radial glia cells with a specific gene signature.

29 Mar 2009 Pilocytic astrocytomas are WHO grade I gliomas that occur predominantly in childhood. They share features of both astroglial and oligodendroglial lineages. These tumours affect preferentially the cerebellum (benign clinical course) and the optic ... 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 - Diagnosis'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Documentation of optic disc melanocytoma by spectral and time domain optical coherence tomography. 29 Sep 2009
• [Imaging of orbital tumors] 29 Sep 2009
• Optic nerve sheath meningioma with perioptic cyst. 29 Jun 2009
• Artery, vein, neither, both? 29 Apr 2009
• Pilocytic astrocytoma of the optic pathway: a tumour deriving from radial glia cells with a specific gene signature. 29 Mar 2009
• Optic nerve and chiasmal germinoma. 27 Feb 2009
• [Large optic nerve sheath meningioma] 27 Feb 2009
• Primary optic nerve tumours. 30 Jan 2009
• [Optic nerve melanocytoma--associated with age related macular degeneration] 30 Dec 2008
• Metastatic adenocarcinoma of bilateral cavernous sinus and optic nerve with unknown primary mimicking orbital pseudotumor. 30 Dec 2008
• 60-year old woman with extra-axial frontal mass. 30 Dec 2008
• Radiological classification of optic pathway gliomas: experience of a modified functional classification system. 29 Sep 2008
• Management of retinoblastoma with proximal optic nerve enhancement on MRI at diagnosis. 29 Sep 2008
• Optochiasmal apoplexy due to a cavernoma. 28 Sep 2008
• [Optic nerve meningioma mimicking progression of glaucomatous axonal damage: a case report] 30 Aug 2008
• Atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor of the optic nerve. 10 Aug 2008
• Clinical course of retrobulbar hemangioblastomas in von Hippel-Lindau disease. 6 Apr 2008
• [NF1 and gliomas: the importance of the MRI] 30 Mar 2008
• Presumed bilateral optic nerve sheath meningiomas presenting as optic neuritis. 28 Feb 2008
• Isolated lymphoma of the anterior visual pathway diagnosed by optic nerve biopsy. 28 Feb 2008

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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;

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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)