BILATERAL OPTIC DISC ASTROCYTOMAS ASSOCIATED WITH DIABETES-MELLITUS

GUNDUZ K., DURUK K., TAMER C.

ANNALS OF OPHTHALMOLOGY, cilt.27, sa.3, ss.137-140, 1995 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 27 Sayı: 3
  • Basım Tarihi: 1995
  • Dergi Adı: ANNALS OF OPHTHALMOLOGY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.137-140
  • Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

A 56-year-old woman was diagnosed with diabetes mellitus (DM) and was referred to the authors (K.G., K.D., and C.T.) for an ophthalmologic examination. Corrected visual acuities were 0.6 oculi unitas. Anterior segment, vitreous examinations, and intraocular pressures were normal. Fundus examination revealed bilateral optic nerve head astrocytomas in addition to background diabetic retinopathy. Fluorescein angiograms of the optic discs showed preinjection autofluorescence and late phase hyperfluorescence. There was no leakage of dye into the surrounding intraetinal or subretinal space. The optic disc astrocytomas did not show intralesional calcification in A- and B-scan ultrasonography. No treatment was recommended for the optic disc astrocytomas. The association of optic disc astrocytoma and DM in the patient was probably coincidential. There were no other cased of DM or optic disc astrocytomas among the other living family members.