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ECHOGRAPHIC PICTURE OF OPTIC NERVE GLIOMA IN NEUROFIBROMATOSIS TYPE-1 [PDF]
Zdravniški Vestnik, 2002 Background. Authors want to present echographic picture of orbital part of low-grade pilocytic astrocytoma involving the optic nerve and/or chiasm and optic tract (optic pathway glioma or visual pathway glioma).Methods.
Biljana Kuzmanović +3 more
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Malignant optic glioma masked by suspected optic neuritis and central retinal vein occlusion
Radiology Case Reports, 2019 Malignant optic glioma presents a clinical and diagnostic challenge, as early imaging findings overlap with other more common causes of optic nerve enhancement and enlargement, potentially leading to delay in diagnosis.
Aleksandrs Kalnins, MD, MBA +5 more
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Recurrent Optic Nerve Pilocytic Astrocytoma: A Rare Case [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2017 Pilocytic astrocytoma is a low grade glioma that affects mostly children and young adults and can occur anywhere in the central nervous system. Pilocytic astrocytoma of the optic nerve is an equally indolent subtype that is often associated with ...
SUDHA GIRISH MENON +3 more
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Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2012 Introduction Medulloepithelioma is a rare congenital tumor of the primitive medullary neuroepithelium. A significant proportion of patients with medulloepithelioma arising from the optic nerve die from intracranial spread or cerebral metastasis.
Pastora-Salvador Natalia +6 more
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Acute post-partum vision loss due to pilocytic astrocytoma
American Journal of Ophthalmology Case Reports, 2020 Purpose: We report an unusual case of a thirty-three-year-old woman who presented with acute unilateral vision loss following pregnancy and was ultimately discovered to have a pilocytic astrocytoma of the optic nerve.
Natalie A. Homer +5 more
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Cell Transplantation, 2020 The optic pathway glioma (OPG) is a slow-growing brain tumor that arises along the optic nerve or its downstream connections and causing vision to gradually worsen with time.
Deepti Singh +4 more
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Glioblastoma multiforme mimicking optic neuritis
American Journal of Ophthalmology Case Reports, 2020 Purpose: To present a case of glioblastoma multiforme which initially presented with only ophthalmic manifestations. Observations: A 48-year-old man presented with decreased vision and pain with eye movements of the right eye.
Meera S. Ramakrishnan +2 more
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A rare case of large bilateral optic nerve glioma in a child without neurofibromatosis type 1
Kerala Journal of Ophthalmology, 2016 We report a rare case of atypical large bilateral malignant optic nerve glioma in a child with no clinical evidence of neurofibromatosis.
Virna M Shah, Sukumar Sharanya
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TGF-beta(2)- and H2O2-Induced Biological Changes in Optic Nerve Head Astrocytes Are Reduced by the Antioxidant Alpha-Lipoic Acid [PDF]
, 2012 Background/Aims: The goal of the present study was to determine whether transforming growth factor-beta(2) (TGF-beta(2))- and oxidative stress-induced cellular changes in cultured human optic nerve head (ONH) astrocytes could be reduced by pretreatment ...
Yu, Alice L. +2 more
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Simplifying the diagnosis of optic tract lesions
Frontiers in Medicine, 2022 Optic tract lesions (OTL) are often difficult to diagnose. We suggest an algorithm to simplify the often-challenging diagnosis of OTL. Clinical and imaging data were retrospectively collected from the electronic files of 6 patients diagnosed with OTL at ...
Noa Cohen-Sinai +7 more
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