New concepts in the management of optic nerve sheath meningiomas

Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 168-174

  Berman, Dalia ^a   Miller, Neil R ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Meningioma; Optic nerve; Optic nerve sheath; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYUREA;

ADRENAL DISEASE; ALOPECIA; BLINDNESS; BRAIN ATROPHY; CATARACT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRY EYE; ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHEMA; EYE BIOPSY; EYE INFLAMMATION; EYE TOXICITY; HEADACHE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; HYPOPITUITARISM; IRITIS; LYMPHOMA; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MENINGIOMA; MICROANEURYSM; NAUSEA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE LESION; PTOSIS; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; RETINOPATHY; REVIEW; SARCOIDOSIS; SCLEROSIS; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VITREOUS HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 33745208010     PISSN: 03044602     EISSN: 29724066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

References (51)

1. Dutton JJ. Optic nerve sheath meningiomas. Surv Ophthalmol 1992;37:167-83.
2. Alper MG. Management of primary optic meningiomas. Current status - therapy in controversy. J Clin Neuroophthalmol 1981;1:101-17.
3. Wilson WB. Meningiomas of the anterior visual system. Surv Ophthalmol 1981;26:109-27.
4. Probst C, Gessaga E, Leuenberger AE. Primary meningioma of the optic nerve sheaths: case report. Ophthalmologica 1985;190:83-90.
5. Als E. Intraorbital meningiomas encasing the optic nerve. A report of two cases. Acta Ophthalmol (Copenh) 1969;47:900-3.
6. Saeed P, Rootman J, Nugent RA, White VA, Mackenzie IR, Koornneef L. Optic nerve sheath meningiomas. Ophthalmology 2003;110:2019-30.
7. Wright JE, Call NB, Liaricos S. Primary optic nerve meningioma. Br J Ophthalmol 1980;64:553-8.
8. Sibony PA, Krauss HR, Kennerdell JS, Maroon JC, Slamovits TL. Optic nerve sheath meningiomas. Clinical manifestations. Ophthalmology 1984;91:1313-26.
9. Hollenhorst RW Jr, Hollenhorst RW Sr, MacCarty CS. Visual prognosis of optic nerve sheath meningiomas producing shunt vessels on the optic disk: the Hoyt-Spencer syndrome. Trans Am Ophthalmol Soc 1977;75:141-63.
10. Jakobiec FA, Depot MJ, Kennerdell JS, Shults WT, Anderson RL, Alper ME, et al. Combined clinical and computed tomographic diagnosis of orbital glioma and meningioma. Ophthalmology 1984;91:137-55.
11. Lindblom B, Truwit CL, Hoyt WF. Optic nerve sheath meningioma. Definition of intraorbital, intracanalicular, and intracranial components with magnetic resonance imaging. Ophthalmology 1992;99:560-6.
12. Frasier Byrne S, Green R. Ultrasound of the Eye and Orbit. 2nd ed. St. Louis: Mosby, 2002:424.
13. Hashimoto M, Tomura N, Watarai J. Retrobulbar orbital metastasis mimicking meningioma. Radiat Med 1995;13:77-9.
14. Backhouse O, Simmons I, Frank A, Cassels-Brown A. Optic nerve breast metastasis mimicking meningioma. Aust N Z J Ophthalmol 1998;26:247-9.
15. Selva D, Rootman J, Crompton J. Orbital lymphoma mimicking optic nerve meningioma. Orbit 2004;23:115-20.
16. Jennings JW, Rojiani AM, Brem SS, Murtagh FR. Necrotizing neurosarcoidosis masquerading as a left optic nerve meningioma: case report. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2002;23:660-2.
17. Ing EB, Garrity JA, Cross SA, Ebersold MJ. Sarcoid masquerading as optic nerve sheath meningioma. Mayo Clin Proc 1997;72:38-43.
18. Thorne JE, Volpe NJ, Wulc AE, Galena SL. Caught by a masquerade: sclerosing orbital inflammation. Surv Ophthalmol 2002;47:50-4.
19. Kanamalla US. The optic nerve tram-track sign. Radiology 2003;227:718-9.
20. Hirst LW, Miller NR, Hodges FJ 3rd, Corbett JJ, Thompson S. Sphenoid pneumosinus dilatans. A sign of meningioma originating in the optic canal. Neuroradiology 1982;22:207-10.
21. Karp LA, Zimmerman LE, Borit A, Spencer W. Primary intraorbital meningiomas. Arch Ophthalmol 1974;91:24-8.
22. Miller NR. The evolving management of optic nerve sheath meningiomas. Br J Ophthalmol 2002;86:1198.
23. Kennerdell JS, Maroon JC, Malton M, Warren FA. The management of optic nerve sheath meningiomas. Am J Ophthalmol 1988;106:450-7.
24. Cristante L. Surgical treatment of meningiomas of the orbit and optic canal: a retrospective study with particular attention to the visual outcome. Acta Neurochir (Wien) 1994;126:27-32.
25. Mark LE, Kennerdell JS, Maroon JC, Rosenbaum AE, Heinz R, Johnson BL. Microsurgical removal of a primary intraorbital meningioma. Am J Ophthalmol 1978;86:704-9.
26. Guyer DR, Miller NR, Long DM, Allen GS. Visual function following optic canal decompression via craniotomy. J Neurosurg 1985;62:631-8.
27. Thom M, Martinian L. Progesterone receptors are expressed with higher frequency by optic nerve sheath meningiomas. Clin Neuropathol 2002;21:5-8.
28. Paus S, Klockgether T, Urbach H, Schlegel U. Meningioma of the optic nerve sheath: treatment with hydroxyurea. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:1348-50.
29. Smith JL, Vuksanovic MM, Yates BM, Bienfang DC. Radiation therapy for primary optic nerve meningiomas. Clin Neuroophthalmol 1981;1:85-99.
30. Turbin RE, Thompson CR, Kennerdell JS, Cockerham KP, Kupersmith MJ. A long-term visual outcome comparison in patients with optic nerve sheath meningioma managed with observation, surgery, radiotherapy, or surgery and radiotherapy. Ophthalmology 2002;109:890-9.
31. Stelzer KJ. Acute and long-term complications of therapeutic radiation for skull base tumors. Neurosurg Clin North Am 2000;11:597-604.
32. Brown GC, Shields JA, Sanborn G, Augsburger JJ, Savino PJ, Schatz NJ. Radiation retinopathy. Ophthalmology 1982;89:1494-501.
33. Parsons JT, Bova FJ, Fitzgerald CR, Mendenhall WM, Million RR. Radiation retinopathy after external-beam irradiation: analysis of time-dose factors. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 1994;30:765-73.
34. Parsons JT, Bova FJ, Fitzgerald CR, Mendenhall WM, Million RR. Radiation optic neuropathy after megavoltage external-beam irradiation: analysis of time-dose factors. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 1994;30:755-63.
35. Richards JC, Roden D, Harper CS. Management of sight-threatening optic nerve sheath meningioma with fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy. Clin Exp Ophthalmol 2005;33:137-41.
36. Girkin CA, Comey CH, Lunsford LD, Goodman ML, Kline LB. Radiation optic neuropathy after stereotactic radiosurgery. Ophthalmology 1997;104:1634-43.
37. Kwon Y, Bae JS, Kim JM, Lee do H, Kim SY, Ahn JS, et al. Visual changes after gamma knife surgery for optic nerve tumors. Report of three cases. J Neurosurg 2005;102(Suppl):43-6.
38. Klink DF, Miller NR, Williams J. Preservation of residual vision 2 years after stereotactic radiosurgery for a presumed optic nerve sheath meningioma. J Neuroophthalmol 1998;18:117-20.
39. Melian E, Jay WM. Primary radiotherapy for optic nerve sheath meningioma. Semin Ophthalmol 2004;19:130-40.
40. Lee AG, Woo SY, Miller NR, Safran AB, Grant WH, Butler EB. Improvement in visual function in an eye with a presumed optic nerve sheath meningioma after treatment with three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy. Neuroophthalmol 1996;16:247-51.
41. Egan RA, Lessell S. A contribution to the natural history of optic nerve sheath meningiomas. Arch Ophthalmol 2002;120:1505-8.
42. Narayan S, Cornblath WT, Sandler HM, Elner V, Hayman JA. Preliminary visual outcomes after three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy for optic nerve sheath meningioma. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2003;56:537-43.
43. Radhakrishnan S, Lee MS. Optic nerve sheath meningiomas. Curr Treat Options Neurol 2005;7:51-5.
44. Miller NR. Primary tumours of the optic nerve and its sheath. Eye 2004;18:1026-37.
45. Liu JK, Forman S, Hershewe GL, Moorthy CR, Benzil DL. Optic nerve sheath meningiomas: visual improvement after stereotactic radiotherapy. Neurosurgery 2002;50:950-5.
46. Pitz S, Becker G, Schiefer U, Wilhelm H, Jeremic B, Bamberg M, et al. Stereotactic fractionated irradiation of optic nerve sheath meningioma: a new treatment alternative. Br J Ophthalmol 2002;86:1265-8.
47. Andrews DW, Faroozan R, Yang BP, Hudes RS, Werner-Wasik M, Kim SM, et al. Fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy for the treatment of optic nerve sheath meningiomas: preliminary observations of 33 optic nerves in 30 patients with historical comparison to observation with or without prior surgery. Neurosurgery 2002;51:890-902.
48. Baumert BG, Villa S, Studer G, Mirimanoff RO, Davis JB, Landau K, et al. Early improvements in vision after fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy for primary optic nerve sheath meningioma. Radiother Oncol 2004;72:169-74.
49. Subramanian PS, Bressler NM, Miller NR. Radiation retinopathy after fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy for optic nerve sheath meningioma. Ophthalmology 2004;111:565-7.
50. Turbin RE, Pokorny K. Diagnosis and treatment of orbital optic nerve sheath meningioma. Cancer Control 2004;11:334-41.
51. Carrasco JR, Penne RB. Optic nerve sheath meningiomas and advanced treatment options. Curr Opin Ophthalmol 2004;15:406-10.