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Orbital optic nerve glioma in adult life
A E Wulc1, D J Bergin, D Barnes
1Scheie Eye Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104.
Archives of Ophthalmology (Chicago, Ill. : 1960)
|July 1, 1989
Abstract:
In seven cases, optic nerve glioma presented as an expanding orbital mass in previously asymptomatic adults. Clinically and histologically, these tumors were similar to the orbital optic nerve gliomas of childhood; in contrast to the rapidly progressive malignant gliomas of the chiasm well described in adults, the patients with these tumors had a more benign clinical course. Management of optic nerve glioma in adulthood should be conservative in the presence of useful vision.