Optic glioma. This tumor of the optic nerve (nerve from the eye to the brain) emerges in early childhood in about 15% of children with NF1. This tumor sometimes causes bulging of the eye and/or loss ...

Tumors near the optic nerve (optic glioma) can directly damage the nerve, leading to vision loss in one or both eyes. Additionally, tumors in the occipital lobe, the brain region responsible for ...

collaborate with pediatric geneticists to rule out optic glioma and other visual sequale of neurofibromatosis, determine risk to a child with glaucoma suspicion, distinguish a morning glory disk from ...

Over the summer, through Make-A-Wish Arizona, Brock and his entire family got to travel to New York City and Niagara Falls.

Malignant gliomas and medulloblastomas — the most common brain tumours affecting adults and children, respectively — remain responsible for a disproportionate level of morbidity and mortality ...

malignant optic nerve glioma or other malignancy, various maculopathies Uveitis Various inflammatory and infectious causes of optic neuritis (sarcoid-, inflammatory bowel disease-, Lyme disease ...

In this cohort, 43% of the optic pathway and hypothalamic gliomas manifested diencephalic syndrome. Among 30 patients who received first line chemotherapy, primary carboplatin and vincristine, the two ...