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Long-term Follow-up of Patients with Optic Glioma

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Journal Childs Nerv Syst
Specialty Pediatrics
Date 1985 Jan 1
PMID 4084911
Citations 5
Authors
M Kanamori
M Shibuya
J Yoshida
M Takayasu
N Kageyama
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Abstract

Patients with optic glioma were classified into two types: infant type and childhood. The infant type was usually immature astrocytomas that had an aggressive course and had a poor prognosis. On the other hand, the childhood type was usually mature astrocytomas with a rather benign, self-limiting course, even when the tumor had been left untreated. To make a long-term assessment, 11 patients with optic glioma were studied and 6 long-term survivors with chiasmal tumor invasion, in whom total removal of the tumor had not been feasible, were followed up for 8-12 years. Most of them had a stable course both clinically and radiologically.

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