Low-grade gliomas are classified as grades 1 and 2; high-grade gliomas are classified as grades 3 and 4. Optic gliomas: These are usually grade 1 tumors that start in the optic nerves, which lead ...

Tumors near the optic nerve (optic glioma) can directly damage the nerve, leading to vision loss in one or both eyes. Additionally, tumors in the occipital lobe, the brain region responsible for ...

Faculty within the clinic help distinguish optic nerve drusen from papilledema, collaborate with pediatric geneticists to rule out optic glioma and other visual sequale of neurofibromatosis, determine ...

What began as a headache for Trigg County second grader Evelyn Shelton in the spring of 2023 turned into a cancer fight that ...

malignant optic nerve glioma or other malignancy, various maculopathies Uveitis Various inflammatory and infectious causes of optic neuritis (sarcoid-, inflammatory bowel disease-, Lyme disease ...

These tumors, known as optic pathway gliomas, are affecting both eyes. The tumor on Buzz's right eye has already taken his vision away in that eye. Now the tumor on his left eye threatens his ...