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[Optical coherence tomography for surveillance of optic disc melanocytoma]. 2011

M Cheour, and H Mazlout, and J Brour

Habib Thameur Hospital, Tunis, Montfleury, Tunisie. moniacheour@yahoo.fr

BACKGROUND Melanocytoma of the optic disc is a stable condition that unfrequently undergoes malignant transformation. METHODS We reported the case of a 42-year-old woman who presented with a pigmented tumoral lesion of the optic disc in her left eye. We described its characteristics in optical coherence tomography (OCT). CONCLUSIONS Patients with pigmented tumors of the optic disc should have a periodic monitoring. OCT may be helpful in the difficult differential diagnosis between malignant and benign tumor and the monitoring of this lesion.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D009901	Optic Nerve Diseases	Conditions which produce injury or dysfunction of the second cranial or optic nerve, which is generally considered a component of the central nervous system. Damage to optic nerve fibers may occur at or near their origin in the retina, at the optic disk, or in the nerve, optic chiasm, optic tract, or lateral geniculate nuclei. Clinical manifestations may include decreased visual acuity and contrast sensitivity, impaired color vision, and an afferent pupillary defect.	Cranial Nerve II Diseases,Foster-Kennedy Syndrome,Optic Disc Disorders,Optic Disk Disorders,Optic Neuropathy,Second Cranial Nerve Diseases,Cranial Nerve II Disorder,Neural-Optical Lesion,Disc Disorder, Optic,Disk Disorder, Optic,Disorder, Optic Disc,Foster Kennedy Syndrome,Lesion, Neural-Optical,Neural Optical Lesion,Neural-Optical Lesions,Neuropathy, Optic,Optic Disc Disorder,Optic Disk Disorder,Optic Nerve Disease,Optic Neuropathies,Syndrome, Foster-Kennedy
D003937	Diagnosis, Differential	Determination of which one of two or more diseases or conditions a patient is suffering from by systematically comparing and contrasting results of diagnostic measures.	Diagnoses, Differential,Differential Diagnoses,Differential Diagnosis
D005260	Female		Females
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000328	Adult	A person having attained full growth or maturity. Adults are of 19 through 44 years of age. For a person between 19 and 24 years of age, YOUNG ADULT is available.	Adults
D019574	Optic Nerve Neoplasms	Benign and malignant neoplasms that arise from the optic nerve or its sheath. OPTIC NERVE GLIOMA is the most common histologic type. Optic nerve neoplasms tend to cause unilateral visual loss and an afferent pupillary defect and may spread via neural pathways to the brain.	Optic Nerve Sheath Tumors,Benign Optic Nerve Neoplasm,Benign Optic Nerve Sheath Neoplasms,Benign Optic Nerve Sheath Tumors,Benign Optic Nerve Tumor,Malignant Optic Nerve Neoplasm,Malignant Optic Nerve Sheath Neoplasms,Malignant Optic Nerve Sheath Tumors,Malignant Optic Nerve Tumor,Neoplasm, Benign, Optic Nerve,Neoplasm, Optic Nerve, Benign,Neoplasms, Optic Nerve,Optic Nerve Neoplasm, Benign,Optic Nerve Sheath Neoplasm,Optic Nerve Sheath Neoplasms, Malignant,Optic Nerve Sheath Tumors, Benign,Optic Nerve Sheath Tumors, Malignant,Optic Nerve Tumor, Malignant,Tumor, Benign, Optic Nerve,Tumor, Malignant, Optic Nerve,Tumor, Optic Nerve, Benign,Tumor, Optic Nerve, Malignant,Neoplasm, Optic Nerve,Optic Nerve Neoplasm
D041623	Tomography, Optical Coherence	An imaging method using LASERS that is used for mapping subsurface structure. When a reflective site in the sample is at the same optical path length (coherence) as the reference mirror, the detector observes interference fringes.	OCT Tomography,Optical Coherence Tomography,Coherence Tomography, Optical,Tomography, OCT