Up In Orbit: A 51-Year Old Woman with Monocular Visual Loss and Adduction Deficit

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Title Up In Orbit: A 51-Year Old Woman with Monocular Visual Loss and Adduction Deficit
Creator Sashank Prasad; Edward Lee; Franz Fogt; Roberta Gausa; Mark Moster; Steven Galetta; Grant Liu
Affiliation (SP) (EL) (FF) (RG) (SG) (GL) Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; (MM) Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA
Subject Neurilemmoma; Optic Neuropathy, Ischemic; Nerve Compression Syndromes; Oculomotor Nerve Diseases
History A 51-year old female with a 6-month history of subacute loss of vision OS.
Pathology Left orbital mass composed of spindle cell neoplasm consistent with schwannoma.
Disease/Diagnosis Schwannoma arising from the inferior division of the left oculomotor nerve causing compressive optic neuropathy
Clinical VA: 20/40 OS deteriorating to 20/70 OS; RAPD OS
Presenting Symptom Progressive loss of vision OS
Neuroimaging MRI
Treatment Corticosteroids; Surgery
Date 2010-03
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Language eng
Format image/jpeg
Type Sound
Source 42nd Annual Frank Walsh Society Meeting
Relation is Part of NANOS Annual Meeting Frank B. Walsh Sessions; 2010
Collection Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library: Walsh Session Annual Meeting Archives: https://novel.utah.edu/Walsh/
Publisher North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society
Holding Institution Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah
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