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
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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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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author Deftereos, Savas P
Karagiannakis, Georgios K
Spanoudaki, Athina
Foutzitzi, Soultana N
Prassopoulos, Panos
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description 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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spelling pubmed-26294732009-01-22 Optic nerve sheath meningioma: a case report Deftereos, Savas P Karagiannakis, Georgios K Spanoudaki, Athina Foutzitzi, Soultana N Prassopoulos, Panos Cases J 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 related hormones. MRI study demonstrated an optic nerve meningioma. The key imaging findings and the differential diagnosis were discussed in this present paper. BioMed Central 2008-12-29 /pmc/articles/PMC2629473/ /pubmed/19114016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-423 Text en Copyright © 2008 Deftereos et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Deftereos, Savas P
Karagiannakis, Georgios K
Spanoudaki, Athina
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Optic nerve sheath meningioma: a case report
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title_full Optic nerve sheath meningioma: a case report
title_fullStr Optic nerve sheath meningioma: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Optic nerve sheath meningioma: a case report
title_short Optic nerve sheath meningioma: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2629473/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19114016
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