Items tagged “optic nerve”
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Optic pathway glioma
Optic pathway gliomas are relatively uncommon tumors, with a variable clinical course and usually seen in the setting of neurofibromatosis type I (NF1). Histologically the majority are pilocytic astrocytomas.
They are characterized by imaging by an enlarged optic nerve seen either on CT or MRI....
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Optic nerve sheath meningioma
Optic nerve meningiomas are benign tumors arising from the arachnoid cap cells of the optic nerve sheath and represent ~20% of all orbital meningiomas, the majority of which are direct extensions from intracranial meningiomas.
These tumors typically appear as masses within the optic nerve, iso...
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Optic nerve sheath diameter
Optic nerve sheath diameter has significance in the assessment of papilledema in cases of elevated intracranial pressure.
Pathology
The optic nerve sheath demonstrates changes in diameter with CSF pressure changes as there is a layer of subarachnoid space between the nerve and its sheath, whic...
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Orbital apex syndrome
Orbital apex syndrome, also known as Jacod syndrome, is a constellation of clinical findings, presenting as a result of several potential pathologies that compress or otherwise affect structures passing through the orbital apex.
Clinical presentation
Presentation is according to the structures...
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Saturday night retinopathy
Saturday night retinopathy is an acute ischemic retinopathy, choroidopathy, and orbitopathy secondary to prolonged ocular pressure during a drug-induced stupor.
Epidemiology
While monocular blindness as a complication of prolonged headrest use in prone neurosurgical procedures has been widely ...