Presumed Bilateral Optic Nerve Sheath Meningiomas Presenting as Optic Neuritis

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Title Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology, March 2008, Volume 28, Issue 1
Date 2008-03
Language eng
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Publication Type Journal Article
Collection Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library - Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology Archives: https://novel.utah.edu/jno/
Publisher Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
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Title Presumed Bilateral Optic Nerve Sheath Meningiomas Presenting as Optic Neuritis
Creator Sawaya, RA; Sidani, C; Farah, N; Hourani-Risk, R
Affiliation Department of Neurology, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon. rs01@aub.edu.lb
Abstract A 30-year-old man who developed acute blurred vision in the right eye and right periocular pain on eye movement proved to have a bilateral optic neuropathy and imaging evidence suggestive of bilateral optic nerve sheath meningiomas. This is an unusual presentation for optic nerve meningioma but a reminder that this entity may mimic optic neuritis.
Subject Adult; Brain Neoplasms, diagnosis; Brain Neoplasms, physiopathology; Diagnosis, Differential; Diagnostic Errors, prevention & control; Disease Progression; Evoked Potentials, Visual, physiology; Functional Laterality, physiology; Humans; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Meningioma, diagnosis; Meningioma, physiopathology; Neoplasm Invasiveness, pathology; Optic Nerve, pathology; Optic Nerve, physiopathology; Optic Nerve Neoplasms, diagnosis; Optic Nerve Neoplasms, physiopathology; Optic Neuritis, diagnosis; Sella Turcica, pathology; Skull Base Neoplasms, diagnosis; Skull Base Neoplasms, physiopathology; Tomography, X-Ray Computed; Vision, Low, etiology; Vision, Low, pathology; Vision, Low, physiopathology
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Publication Type Journal Article
Collection Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library - Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology Archives: https://novel.utah.edu/jno/
Holding Institution Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah, 10 N 1900 E SLC, UT 84112-5890
Setname ehsl_novel_jno
ID 225672
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6vt4z6b/225672