Malignant Glioma of the Optic Chiasm Eight Years After Radiotherapy for Prolactinoma

Thierry J. Hufnagel; Jung H. Kim; Robert Lesser; Joseph M. Miller; James J. Abrahams; Joseph Piepmeier; Elias E. Manuelidis

doi:10.1001/archopht.1988.01060140873031

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December 1988

Malignant Glioma of the Optic Chiasm Eight Years After Radiotherapy for Prolactinoma

Thierry J. Hufnagel, MD; Jung H. Kim, MD; Robert Lesser, MD; et al Joseph M. Miller, MD; James J. Abrahams, MD; Joseph Piepmeier, MD; Elias E. Manuelidis, MD

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From the Sections of Neuropathology (Drs Hufnagel, Kim, and Manuelidis) and Neurosurgery (Dr Piepmeier), Department of Surgery; Section of Neuroradiology, Department of Diagnostic Imaging (Dr Abrahams); and the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science (Drs Hufnagel, Lesser, and Miller), Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.

Arch Ophthalmol. 1988;106(12):1701-1705. doi:10.1001/archopht.1988.01060140873031

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• A 41-year-old man had rapidly progressive visual loss caused by a malignant glioma that developed in the optic chiasm eight years after radiation therapy for a recurrent prolactinoma. Radiation-induced glioma should be considered as a cause of progressive visual loss in patients who have received irradiation in the region of the sella turcica.

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