A pregnant pause
| Autor: | Katherine A. Lane, Emily S. Birkholz, Jeffrey A. Nerad, Jurij R. Bilyk, Andrew G. Lee |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
genetic structures Visual Acuity Schwannoma Blindness Radiosurgery Optic neuropathy Lesion Young Adult Pregnancy Optic Nerve Diseases otorhinolaryngologic diseases Medicine Humans reproductive and urinary physiology business.industry Progressive visual loss Pregnant patient medicine.disease Magnetic Resonance Imaging eye diseases Surgery Ophthalmology Positron-Emission Tomography Gestation Orbital Neoplasms Female sense organs Differential diagnosis medicine.symptom business Pregnancy Complications Neoplastic Neurilemmoma |
| Zdroj: | Survey of ophthalmology. 55(2) |
| ISSN: | 1879-3304 |
| Popis: | A 23-year-old pregnant woman presented with a rapidly progressive unilateral optic neuropathy. The evaluation was complicated by her being pregnant and the issues surrounding the evaluation and management of the pregnant patient with a neuro-ophthalmic finding is discussed. Eventually an orbital apex lesion was found and proved to be an orbital schwannoma. Rapid growth of an orbital schwannoma should be included in the differential diagnosis of progressive visual loss in a pregnant patient. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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