These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: Optic nerve and chiasm gliomas in children.
    Author: Gaini SM, Tomei G, Arienta C, Zavanone M, Giovanelli M, Villani R.
    Journal: J Neurosurg Sci; 1982; 26(1):33-9. PubMed ID: 7143083.
    Abstract:
    In a 30 years period, 42 children were admitted for optic nerve and chiasm gliomas; 20 patients aged less than 5 years and 22 between 6 and 16 years. Duration of symptoms ranged from 13.15 months in children aged less than 5 years, to 10.18 months in patients aged more than 6. Onset of symptoms were characterized by visual impairment and/or proptosis in 73.8%, diencephalic disorders in 16.6% and intracranial hypertension in 9.5%. All patients underwent skull X-rays; 31 had a PEG taken and 12 a CT scan. Surgery was prompted in 27 patients, 2 of which died in postoperative course. Radiotherapy was the treatment of choice in the other 15 patients, 40 patients were followed up: the best results were obtained in the group of patients operated on and irradiated.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]