Ultrastructural and Histochemical Observations of Optic Nerve Gliomas

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Ultrastructural and Histochemical Observations of Optic Nerve Gliomas

Douglas R. Anderson, MD; William H. Spencer, MD

Arch Ophthalmol. 1970;83(3):324-335.

Abstract

Colloidal iron stains showed that many optic nerve gliomas containmucoid material. This material is extracellular, as demonstratedespecially by electron microscopy of two gliomas. In one gliomait was particularly abundant and it apparently contributed toa sudden increase of proptosis due to rapid enlargement of thetumor. There was no evidence of necrosis or degeneration inthese tumors, by light or by electron microscopy, and the accumulationof mucosubstance is not considered to be a degenerative change.The tumor cells were mainly astrocytes. These had certain embryonicultrastructural features, but did not exhibit malignant alteration.

Author Affiliations

San Francisco

From the University of California Eye Pathology Laboratory and the Francis I. Proctor Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology, University of California Medical Center, San Francisco. Dr. Anderson is now at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Miami, Fla.

Footnotes

Submitted for publication May 6, 1969.

Read before the spring meeting of the Association for Researchin Ophthalmology, Sarasota, Fla, April 21, 1969.

Reprint requests to Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, PO Box 875,Biscayne Annex, Miami, Fla 33152 (Dr. Anderson).

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