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Recurrence of astrocytoma of optic nerve after 48 years.
  1. J. Mullaney,
  2. J. Walsh,
  3. W. R. Lee and
  4. J. H. Adams

    Abstract

    A tumour presumed to be a juvenile glioma of the optic nerve was removed by a Kronlein procedure from a 4-year old boy in 1925. In 1973 a severe proptosis made it necessary to remove the atrophic eye and a large retro-ocular tumour. Histological examination, supported by electron microscopy, showed the second tumour to be an anaplastic pilocytic astrocytoma. The possible histogenesis and this unusual behaviour pattern are discussed.

    https://doi.org/10.1136/bjo.60.7.539

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