Isolated low grade pilocytic astrocytoma of the optic nerve in the elderly: Case report;Astrocitoma pilocítico de baixo grau do nervo óptico em adultos: Relato de caso

Arquivos Brasileiros de Oftalmologia

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 97-100

  Hoyama, Erika ^a   Velascoe Cruz, Antonio Augusto ^b   Colli, Benedicto Oscar ^b   de Matos, João Roberto ^c   Chahud, Fernando ^b  

^a Hospital de Olhos de Londrina   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c Hospital Oswaldo Cruz   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aged; Astrocytoma diagnosis; Case reports; Magn tica resonance imaging; Optic nerve glioma diagnosis; Optic nerve pathology

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NERVE TUMOR;

AGED; ASTROCYTOMA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; OPTIC NERVE NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 58849090132     PISSN: 00042749     EISSN: 16782925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0004-27492008000100020     Document Type: Article

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