[Meningioma of the optic nerve sheath with extensive intraocular growth].
METHODS
We report on an elderly female patient with a diagnosis of an optic nerve sheath meningioma 11 years after onset of ophthalmological symptoms. 8 years after diagnosis and consecutive tumour-resection near the orbital apex the eye had to be enucleated because of a painful secondary glaucoma. Prior to enucleation computed tomography had revealed extra- and intraocular tumour.
Morphological investigations showed a neoplasia which had entered the eye via the optic nerve head. Besides severe secondary changes there was a diffuse tumour spread within the choroid and a "mushroom-like" growth towards the vitreous cavity. No differences between extra- and intraocular meningioma were found light- and electronmicroscopically.
Rohrbach
J M
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Abteilung I, Universitäts-Augenklinik Tübingen.
Wilhelm
H
H
Eichhorn
M
M
Ioannakis
K
K
Zimmermann-Burg
B
B
Wakat
J P
JP
D000368:Aged; D003390:Cranial Nerve Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D015353:Eye Enucleation; D005134:Eye Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D005451:Fluorescein Angiography; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D008579:Meningioma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D009901:Optic Nerve Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D012160:Retina / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Optikusscheidenmeningeom mit ausgeprägtem intraokularem Wachstum.