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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Asian J Neurosurg 2017; 12(01): 103-105
DOI: 10.4103/1793-5482.145109
CASE REPORT

An interesting case of wrongly diagnosed optic neuritis

Vivek Tandon
Department of Neurosurgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
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Kanwaljeet Garg
Department of Neurosurgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
,
Ashok Mahapatra
1   Department of Neurosurgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
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Optic neuritis (ON) may rarely mimic optic nerve tumor, index of suspicion should be kept high. A 34-year-old woman presented to a major academic institute with a history of right-sided ocular pain and progressive visual loss in the same eye. Her magnetic resonance imaging showed markedly thickened optic nerve; her workup for inflammatory pathology was negative; she was diagnosed as a case of optic nerve tumor and was planned for surgery. Patient for second opinion came to a tertiary care institute where on proper history taking and evaluation she was diagnosed and treated on the lines of ON and she improved. The diagnosis of ON is a clinical one, it may mimic optic nerve tumor in rare cases.

Key-words:

Optic neuritis - misdiagnoses - multiple sclerosis


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20 September 2022

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