Focal reactive nodular gliosis: an extremely rare retinal astrocytic tumor
Saúl Villoria-Díaz, María Antonia Saornil-Álvarez, Ciro García-Álvarez, Elena García-Lagarto, Irene Bermúdez-Castellanos · 2023
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Description
Saúl Villoria-Díaz and four co-authors report an eye tumor so rare it was mistaken for melanoma, in a 2023 case study. The growth, a focal reactive nodular gliosis, is a benign tuft of well-ordered glial cells that can arise after many kinds of retinal damage. It is seldom seen and hard to recognize.
Their patient, a sixty-four-year-old man, had carried a scarred patch in the eye since childhood. He arrived with sudden painful vision loss, a clouded lens, new blood vessels on the iris, and a suspected mass. Ultrasound suggested choroidal melanoma, the dangerous cancer, and MRI showed a tidy, well-bounded lesion. The eye was removed, and tissue studies under the microscope overturned the cancer verdict: gliosis, reactive and benign. The case warns that even alarming scans can hide harmless growths.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Saúl Villoria-Díaz, María Antonia Saornil-Álvarez, Ciro García-Álvarez, Elena García-Lagarto, Irene Bermúdez-Castellanos |
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| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 8 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |