Twenty one cases of encephalomas were misdi-agnosed firstly in ophthalmology Departmant, which included 9 cases of pituitary adema, 7 cases of meningioma, 4 cases of craniophargngioma and 1 case of glioma. There were ...Twenty one cases of encephalomas were misdi-agnosed firstly in ophthalmology Departmant, which included 9 cases of pituitary adema, 7 cases of meningioma, 4 cases of craniophargngioma and 1 case of glioma. There were 19 cases whose lesions located in sella turrica region and 2 cases in occipital lobe. The first ophtha1mic symptom was mostly the diminishing of visual acuity, usually accompanied by systemic dis-comfort such as headache and disturbance of endocrine system. These encephalomas were falsely diagnosed as retrobulbar neuritis, retinitis, optic atrophy and ametropia and so on. The reasons of misdiagnosis were analyzed and discussed.展开更多
文摘Twenty one cases of encephalomas were misdi-agnosed firstly in ophthalmology Departmant, which included 9 cases of pituitary adema, 7 cases of meningioma, 4 cases of craniophargngioma and 1 case of glioma. There were 19 cases whose lesions located in sella turrica region and 2 cases in occipital lobe. The first ophtha1mic symptom was mostly the diminishing of visual acuity, usually accompanied by systemic dis-comfort such as headache and disturbance of endocrine system. These encephalomas were falsely diagnosed as retrobulbar neuritis, retinitis, optic atrophy and ametropia and so on. The reasons of misdiagnosis were analyzed and discussed.
