Why Diseases of the Optic Chiasm May Be Hard to Detect When a disease or lesion affects the optic nerve before it reaches the optic chiasm in the brain, the defect in the vision will show up in ...

T1-weighted coronal MRIs. Note the diffuse enlargement of both optic nerves, the optic chiasm and both optic tracts. One can easily appreciate the infiltration of these structures, especially when ...

Cambridge Ophthalmological Symposium Published: 04 October 2007 Cambridge Ophthalmology Symposium Developmental abnormalities of the optic nerve and chiasm D Taylor Eye 21, 1271–1284 (2007) Cite ...

The optic nerve is the nerve that transmits visual information from the retina to the brain. The optic nerve is composed of retinal ganglion cell axons and support cells. It leaves the orbit (eye ...

At the optic chiasm axons make a key binary decision either to cross the chiasmal midline to innervate the contralateral optic tract or to remain uncrossed and innervate the ipsilateral optic ...

MRI is typically better than computed tomography for imaging the soft tissue around the sella and the optic chiasm. Pituitary adenomas account for approximately 10% of all intracranial neoplasms.

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Automated perimetry demonstrated bitemporal hemianopic defects (Figure 1). Contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain with attention to the optic chiasm revealed a 3.2-cm ...