Survey of Ophthalmology
Volume 46, Issue 1 , Pages 35-42, July 2001

Visual Loss in Childhood☆☆☆

Division of Neuro-Ophthalmology, Departments of Neurology and Ophthalmology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and Scheie Eye Institute, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Abstract 

An eight-year-old girl presented with vision loss and optic atrophy. Neuro-imaging revealed a sellar mass, which when biopsied proved to be a chiasmatic/hypothalamic glioma. The differential diagnosis of a sellar mass in childhood is discussed, and the presentation and management of chiasmatic/hypothalamic gliomas is reviewed.

Keywords:  glioma, junction scotoma, parasellar mass, chiasmal syndrome

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☆ The authors have no proprietary or commercial interest in any product or concept discussed in this article.

☆☆ Reprints are not available.

PII: S0039-6257(01)00225-9

Survey of Ophthalmology
Volume 46, Issue 1 , Pages 35-42, July 2001

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