title: Spheno-orbital meningioma with optociliary veins.
abstract: A 40-year-old white woman had slowly progressive unilateral loss of visual acuity and increasing proptosis during an eight-year period. Ophthalmoscopy and fluorescein angiography revealed chronic disk edema and optociliary shunt vessels in the right eye. Polytomography showed an enlarged right optic canal. Cerebral arteriography demonstrated a dumbbell-shaped tumor blush in the right juxtasellar region and a diffuse tumor blush in the right orbit. Right frontal craniotomy and orbital exploration showed a cranio-orbital junction (spheno-orbital) meningioma that invaded the sclera and peripapillary choroid. Anomalous optociliary veins were demonstrated histologically at the optic disk.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002823:Chorion / Q000473:pathology; D003399:Craniotomy; D005123:Eye / Q000098:blood supply; D005260:Female; D005451:Fluorescein Angiography; D006801:Humans; D008579:Meningioma / Q000098:blood supply / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D009900:Optic Nerve / Q000473:pathology; D009915:Orbit / Q000098:blood supply / Q000473:pathology; D009918:Orbital Neoplasms / Q000098:blood supply / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D011859:Radiography; D012163:Retinal Detachment / Q000473:pathology; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging