The optic chiasm is an X-shaped structure formed by the crossing of the optic nerves in the brain. The optic nerve connects the brain to the eye. To biologists, the optic chiasm is thought to be a ...

Pituitary apoplexy may require emergency surgical intervention; however, sometimes it can be managed more conservatively with medical therapies, particularly corticosteroid replacement if ...

Purpose To determine new criteria for early detection of temporal hemianopia in patients with asymptomatic pituitary tumor. Methods Fifteen patients without visual symptoms had pituitary tumor and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The use of OCT-ganglion cell complex analysis may be a more effective way to detect compressive chiasmopathy or ...

A Puerto Rican woman aged 50 years presented to an ophthalmologist with complaints of vision changes, including difficulty seeing images in her peripheral vision in both eyes and difficulty in color ...

Low Grade Glioma of the Optic Nerves, Chiasm and Tracts. T1-weighted coronal MRIs. Note the diffuse enlargement of both optic nerves, the optic chiasm and both optic tracts. One can easily appreciate ...

A 68-year-old man was initially examined in the emergency department after sustaining trauma to his head after a fall on ice outside his home. He was on therapeutic anticoagulation treatment for ...