The primary intradural tumours of the optic nerve (Fibromatosis nervi optici) / by W. Gordon M. Byers.

  • Byers, W. Gordon M. (William Gordon Matthew)
Date:
[1901]
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Credit: The primary intradural tumours of the optic nerve (Fibromatosis nervi optici) / by W. Gordon M. Byers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    one direction than another. No stc^t^o LvTT «o i process existed, nor was there 1 sation P'?''^ '^^^^^^^y J^roptosisfrom placing the head^n .M.h ' °' '^^Sre^ of gestion of the parts The onh^h.T ^ ^^^o' '^on- nerve and unilaCr chik d S sc X^'^tfrT'' ' g-atly swollen bhndness were strong points in the HJ^J ^'.^^^he complete and early remove the growth a?d retain th. . ■ ''P^ ^° ^^le to the attachm!ntTthf inner ^ f ^ ''''' ^^'^'^ ^'^'^'^ would be improved by the free applicatio ?f chTor ^of z nc p^^^^^^^ the orb.t, and under these circumstances deemed it useless rattemnt to save the eyeball. Accordingly, the eye was removed anTth^SLcTast: after?h: ^pefadot'^^^^^^ '^''''^ - --^s Although it is now (1901) fifteen years since the removal ot the growth, the patient is active and well. Full anatomical description of the tumour was not made at the tmie, and the accompanying pathological report is my excuse for givmg the case a new publicity. The eye and tumour had been preserved by Dr. Buller in Mailer's fluid. Macroscopically, the tumour was slightly spindle-shaped in appearance, measunng^ 25 mm. in length by 14 mm. in breadth at its point of g-reatest thickness, which was situated at or near its middle point, in other words, 121^ mm. from either end. The mass was every- where surrounded by a smooth dense capsule, having an even thickness throug-hout of about 0.5 mm. This structure was undoubtedly the dural sheath of the optic nerve and could be readily stripped off from the rest of the tumour, leaving- exposed an uneven, but smooth, almost shiny, surface.