Malignant optic glioma of adulthood. Case report and review of the literature.
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.
Dario
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Neurosurgical Division, Varese Regional Hospital, Italy.
Iadini
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Cerati
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Marra
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D000368:Aged; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D020339:Optic Nerve Glioma / Q000473:pathology*; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000209:etiology