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 ...

Aims To assess the course of visual function after neurosurgical decompression of the optic nerve during resection of intracranial tumours. To obtain information that may be used to counsel patients.

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

The use of OCT-ganglion cell complex analysis may be a more effective way to detect compressive chiasmopathy or optic neuropathy early on, according to findings published in the journal, Pituitary.

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 ...

The human body is complex, and many things can go wrong while a baby is developing. Sometimes, genetic mutations occur, or things don’t form quite right. One condition that can result from ...

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 ...