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- Title
An interesting case of wrongly diagnosed optic neuritis.
- Authors
Tandon, Vivek; Garg, Kanwaljeet; Mahapatra, Ashok K.
- Abstract
Optic neuritis (ON) may rarely mimic optic nerve tumor, index of suspicion should be kept high. A 34-year-old woman presented to a major academic institute with a history of right-sided ocular pain and progressive visual loss in the same eye. Her magnetic resonance imaging showed markedly thickened optic nerve; her workup for inflammatory pathology was negative; she was diagnosed as a case of optic nerve tumor and was planned for surgery. Patient for second opinion came to a tertiary care institute where on proper history taking and evaluation she was diagnosed and treated on the lines of ON and she improved. The diagnosis of ON is a clinical one, it may mimic optic nerve tumor in rare cases.
- Subjects
OPTIC neuritis; OPTIC nerve tumors; VISION disorders; INFLAMMATION; DIAGNOSTIC errors; DIAGNOSIS
- Publication
Asian Journal of Neurosurgery, 2017, Vol 12, Issue 1, p103
- ISSN
1793-5482
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.4103/1793-5482.145109