THE PSEUDO-CSF SIGNAL OF ORBITAL OPTIC GLIOMA ON MAGNETIC-RESONANCE-IMAGING - A SIGNATURE OF NEUROFIBROMATOSIS

被引:27
作者
BRODSKY, MC [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV ARKANSAS MED SCI HOSP,DEPT OPHTHALMOL,LITTLE ROCK,AR 72205
关键词
OPTIC NERVE GLIOMA; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERINEURAL ARACHNOIDAL GLIOMATOSIS;
D O I
10.1016/0039-6257(93)90104-F
中图分类号
R77 [眼科学];
学科分类号
100212 ;
摘要
A five-and-a-half-year-old boy with neurofibromatosis had bilateral orbital optic gliomas visible on magnetic resonance imaging. Both tumors displayed a double-intensity signal characterized by a circumferential area of CSF-intensity tissue surrounding and sharply delimited from a central linear core of opposite signal intensity. The peripheral CSF-intensity signal in orbital optic glioma correlates with the histopathological finding of perineural arachnoidal gliomatosis and serves as a neuroradiologic marker for neurofibromatosis.
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