Renate Unsöld

(Author)

Compressive Optic Nerve Lesions at the Optic Canal: Pathogenesis - Diagnosis - Treatment (Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 1989)Paperback - Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 1989, 6 December 2011

Compressive Optic Nerve Lesions at the Optic Canal: Pathogenesis - Diagnosis - Treatment (Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 1989)
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Print Length
140 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Springer
Date Published
6 Dec 2011
ISBN-10
3642733840
ISBN-13
9783642733840

Description

The optic canal, in particular its intracranial end, represents a "locus minoris resistentiae" for optic nerve compression in a variety of pathologic conditions. The intracranial optic nerve shares the limited space within this narrow passage with the carotid and ophthalmic artery, all being surrounded by bone and rigid dura. Any pathological condition going along with an increase of soft tissue volume, such as in optic nerve sheath tumors, parasellar neoplasms, dolichoectasia of the carotid and/ or ophthalmic artery, hematomas, etc., or reduction of the lumen of the bony optic canal by hyperpneumatization of the sphenoid sinus, hyperostosis or developmental abnormalities must act as a space-occupying lesion causing optic nerve compression either by pressing the nerve against the vessel or the neighboring dura or bone. The spectrum of clinical signs and symptoms of optic nerve compression in this area is rather wide and includes acute as well as slowly progressive visual loss and all kinds of visual field defects in the presence of a normal disk, papilledema, pri mary optic atrophy or cavernous optic atrophy mimicking var ious clinical disease entities such as retrobulbar optic neuritis, anterior and posterior ischemic optic neuropathy, soft glaucoma and others. Some of the lesions causing optic nerve compression in this area are rather small and need to be visualized or excluded by thin section CT such as pneumosinus dilatans of the sphenoid bone, dolichoectasia of the internal carotid artery, small men ingiomas around the optic foramen and others."

Product Details

Authors:
Renate UnsöldWolfgang Seeger
Book Edition:
Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 1989
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
NL
Date Published:
6 December 2011
Dimensions:
27.94 x 20.96 x 0.84 cm
ISBN-10:
3642733840
ISBN-13:
9783642733840
Language:
English
Location:
Berlin, Heidelberg
Pages:
140
Publisher:
Weight:
367.41 gm

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