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BILATERAL MASSIVE GLIOSIS OF THE RETINA INVOLVING THE OPTIC NERVES
Author(s) -
BARISHAK ROBERT Y.,
STEIN R.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
acta ophthalmologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.534
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1755-3768
pISSN - 1755-375X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-3768.1975.tb01149.x
Subject(s) - gliosis , optic nerve , retina , medicine , anatomy , ophthalmology , pathology , neuroscience , biology
A 40‐year‐old woman, blind in her right eye since childhood and in the left since the age of 15, presented a gliomatous tumoral mass filling up the eyes completely. Sections of the optic nerve of one eye showed the same cellular aspect noted in both intraocular tumors. The optic foramina had a normal size and there were no signs of Recklinghausen's disease. The diagnosis was bilateral reactive gliosis but the presence of a congenital anomaly has to be postulated in order to explain the involvement of the optic nerve in the process of intraocular gliosis.

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