title: Malignant optic glioma of adulthood. Case report and review of the literature.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The malignant optic glioma in adulthood is a rare tumour of middle-age which causes an early loss of vision and always leads to death within a year.
  
  
  METHODS
  The authors report a case of this disease in a 68-year-old woman with a history of rapidly deteriorating vision and death 6 months after surgery.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A review of the previous cases showed the accordance of these with the syndrome defined first by Hoyt et al. in 1973; a statistical analysis reveals that the radiotherapy improves the survival whereas the role of chemotherapy is still not definite.
authors.affiliation: Neurosurgical Division, Varese Regional Hospital, Italy.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dario
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Iadini
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cerati
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Marra
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D020339:Optic Nerve Glioma / Q000473:pathology*; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000209:etiology