PRIMARY TUMORS OF THE OPTIC NERVE (A PHENOMENON OF RECKLINGHAUSEN'S DISEASE)

Abstract

SECOND INSTALLMENT (MAY ISSUE) General Comment Nature of Gliomas as Revealed by This Study. Clinical Features Glial Cells of the Normal Optic Nerve Classification of Types of Gliomas Found Among Tumors of the Optic Nerve Recklinghausen's Disease Relation of Tumors of the Optic Nerve to Recklinghausen's Disease A Review of the Literature Comment Table Summarizing the Review of the Literature on Recklinghausen's Disease and Tumors of the Optic Nerve Summary Acknowledgments Bibliography Abstract of Discussion INTRODUCTION AND CLASSIFICATION Primary tumors of the optic nerve are rare. Collins and Marshall reported only 2 over a period of fifteen years among 388,000 patients treated at the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital (Moorfields) in London. Verhoeff reported that 4 primary tumors of the optic nerve were removed at the Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary over a period of thirty-six years, during which time 669,557 new patients were examined. In these two large series of