Optic nerve sheath meningioma: a case report

A case of a 75-year old male with right-sided exopthalmos is presented. Outside proptosis of the right eye was initially observed 6 years ago. Opthalmological and endocrinological clinical examination as well as laboratory tests revealed no pathology from optic nerve disc, optic bulb and thyroid rel...

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Autores principales: Deftereos, Savas P, Karagiannakis, Georgios K, Spanoudaki, Athina, Foutzitzi, Soultana N, Prassopoulos, Panos
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2629473/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19114016
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-423
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Sumario:A case of a 75-year old male with right-sided exopthalmos is presented. Outside proptosis of the right eye was initially observed 6 years ago. Opthalmological and endocrinological clinical examination as well as laboratory tests revealed no pathology from optic nerve disc, optic bulb and thyroid related hormones. MRI study demonstrated an optic nerve meningioma. The key imaging findings and the differential diagnosis were discussed in this present paper.

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