Optic Nerve Neoplasms
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Lack of correlation between the histologic and magnetic resonance imaging results of optic nerve involvement in eyes primarily enucleated for retinoblastoma.

7 Jul 2009 PURPOSE: To correlate the histologic and magnetic resonance imaging results of the optic nerve in eyes primarily enucleated for retinoblastoma. DESIGN: Retrospective, clinicopathologic correlation. PARTICIPANTS: Sixty-seven consecutive patients with ... Read more...

Somatostatin receptor scintigraphy for optic nerve sheath meningiomas.

2 Jun 2009 OBJECTIVE: To investigate the value of somatostatin receptor scintigraphy (SSRS) in the diagnosis of optic nerve sheath meningiomas (ONSMs). DESIGN: Prospective, comparative case series. PARTICIPANTS: SSRS was used to investigate 68 orbits in 61 ... Read more...

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...

Latest indexed articles for 'Optic Nerve Neoplasms'

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
• Lack of correlation between the histologic and magnetic resonance imaging results of optic nerve involvement in eyes primarily enucleated for retinoblastoma. 7 Jul 2009
• Optic nerve sheath meningioma with perioptic cyst. 29 Jun 2009
• Somatostatin receptor scintigraphy for optic nerve sheath meningiomas. 2 Jun 2009
• Visual outcome and tumor control after conformal radiotherapy for patients with optic nerve sheath meningioma. 2 May 2009
• [Choroidal metastasis from a breast carcinoma. Diagnosis and follow-up with optical coherence tomography and fluorescein angiography and autofluorescence with HRA-II (Heidelberg Retina Angiograph)] 29 Apr 2009
• Artery, vein, neither, both? 29 Apr 2009
• Fractionated stereotactic radiation therapy in the management of primary optic nerve sheath meningiomas. 30 Mar 2009
• Rosette-forming glioneuronal tumor: report of a chiasmal-optic nerve example in neurofibromatosis type 1: special pathology report. 30 Mar 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
• Rituximab for intraocular lymphoma. 30 Jan 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
• Ocular melanocytoma. 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

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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)