Optic Nerve Glioma: A Case of Surgical Treatment to the Optic Chiasm Tumor.
- Author:
Haeng Ju JANG
1
;
Eun Ju MIN
;
Byung Il PARK
Author Information
1. Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, Chonnam National University, Kwangju, Korea.
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
astrocytoma grade I;
Kroenlein operation and craniotomy;
optic chiasm;
optic nerve glioma;
proptosis
- MeSH:
Brain;
Craniotomy;
Exophthalmos;
Female;
Hand;
Humans;
Optic Chiasm*;
Optic Nerve Glioma*;
Optic Nerve*;
Orbit;
Recurrence;
Visual Acuity
- From:Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society
1991;32(5):397-400
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
A twenty nine-year-old woman has suffered for ten years from progressive proptosis and loss of vision in the right eye. Her right eye had deviated out-and-upwards, and its visual acuity was tested by hand motions. With the help of a brain and orbit CT, the tumor was found around the optic nerve and in the parasellar area. This tumor was surgically removed twice by Kroenlein operation and craniotomy, and was treated with irradiation(total dose: 5400 RAD). It was histopathologically diagnosed as astracytoma grade I. In the consecutive study, no evidence of recurrence of the tumor in either the orbit or brain was found.
