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Report of a Case

SHEPARD N. DUNN, M.D.; FRANK B. WALSH, M.D.

AMA Arch Ophthalmol. 1956;56(5):702-707.

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The purpose of this paper is to report a case of optic nerve meningioma observed in a child at age 11 years and subsequently 17 years later. Certain unusual features have seemed instructive to us. Brief mention of this case has been made elsewhere.*

Optic nerve tumors were classified by Leber in 1877 as intradural and extradural (Hudson). In 1902, Byers collected all reported optic nerve tumors. He considered them as fibromas (see Hudson). In 1912, Hudson¹ classified optic nerve tumors as gliomas, meningiomas, and fibromas. Writing in Penfield's "Cytology and Cellular Pathology of the Nervous System," Verhoeff,² in 1932, followed Hudson's classification. In 1938, Cushing and Eisenhardt³ published a monograph on meningiomas and included several cases of interest in regard to the case here reported. Davis,⁴ in 1939, wrote regarding primary tumors of the optic nerve and emphasized particularly the coexistence of neurofibromatosis and gliomas . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Baltimore

From the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute, The Johns Hopkins Hospital and University.

Footnotes
Received for publication May 24, 1956.

Presented at the Wilmer Residents' Meeting, March 31, 1955.

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