Evolution of optociliary veins in optic nerve sheath meningioma. Evolution.
Sequential fundus photographs, obtained during an eight-year period, documented the development of optociliary veins. Disc edema preceded their appearance by three years, and as optic atrophy became profound, the veins changed in number and in size.
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