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Ophthalmology
Intracranial Tumours of Ophthalmic Significance
Built from Khurana — Neuro-Ophthalmology
What’s inside
5 sections · 40 slides
Overview
- Why this topic matters to the eye doctor
- Roadmap of this topic
Groundwork
What these tumours are and who gets them
- Two big families of brain tumour
- Primary tumours grouped by the cell they grow from
- Age tilts the odds of which tumour it is
The clinical approach
Reading the eye to find the tumour
- How brain tumours present - and the headache clue
- Examination of the pupils
- Ophthalmoscopy - what the optic disc reveals
- Perimetry - mapping the field of vision
- The junctional scotoma - a precise localiser
- Bitemporal and retrochiasmal defects
- Syndromic presentations of brain tumours
- Diplopia and squint from ocular motor palsies
- Third nerve palsy - the pupil is the alarm
- Fourth and sixth nerve palsies
- Nystagmus - patterns that localise
- More localising eye oscillations
The four eye-clinic tumours
Pituitary adenoma, craniopharyngioma, meningioma, glioma
- Pituitary adenomas - the basics
- Sizing a pituitary tumour
- Secretory pituitary adenomas by hormone and frequency
- Non-secretory macroadenomas - the compression picture
- Chiasm position and the pattern of pituitary field loss
- Pituitary apoplexy - an endocrine emergency
- Treating pituitary adenomas
- Craniopharyngiomas
- Meningiomas - who and where
- Meningioma - the eye presentations
- Meningioma - imaging and treatment
- Gliomas - clinical profile
- Gliomas - imaging and treatment
Bringing it together
Takeaways, quick review, references
- Three habits that catch brain tumours early
- Key takeaways
- A patient has a complete third nerve palsy with a fixed, dilated pupil. Why is this urgent?
- References
- Neuro-Ophthalmology