A 69-year-old woman was referred for progressive visual loss in the right eye over the previous 6 months. She described the vision as distorted and “crinkly.” An ophthalmologist had been following the ...

The patient's initial symptoms of blurred vision and an enlarged blind spot in his left eye are not typical of a chiasm-compressing pituitary mass. Classically, patients with lesions of the chiasm ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Band optic atrophy is described as a horizontal band of optic disc pallor, often associated with a contralateral ...

On the basis of the patient's findings, the likely diagnosis is a midline intracranial tumor. The diagnosis of glaucoma is unlikely. Although the patient has optic nerve head asymmetry, intraocular ...

A 47 year-old woman developed progressive headaches and difficulty with her vision. Neurological examination revealed a bitemporal hemianopsia. Pituitary Macroadenoma. (Left) T1-weighted sagittal MRI; ...

The optic nerve is the nerve that transmits visual information from the retina to the brain. The optic nerve is composed of retinal ganglion cell axons and support cells. It leaves the orbit (eye) via ...