Orbital Optic Glioma in Neurofibromatosis
- 1 December 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Ophthalmology (1950)
- Vol. 105 (12) , 1689-1692
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archopht.1987.01060120087032
Abstract
• In a patient with neurofibromatosis and orbital optic glioma, T2-weighted axial magnetic resonance images showed a fusiform area of high signal intensity with a central linear core of lower signal intensity. Computed tomographic images did not show a corresponding variation in tumor density. Histopathologic examination of the tumor revealed dense, circumferential, perineural glial proliferation. This "arachnoidal gliomatosis" is a feature of orbital optic gliomas in neurofibromatosis and, in our magnetic resonance scans, accurately corresponded with the region of high signal intensity within the tumor.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
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