Treatment for optic nerve glioma
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Hospital
Diseases
2007-11-12 20:37:21
kind of brain tumor
Answer:Often only follow-up, some regress without doing anything.
So, it depends.Operation/biopsy -gamma knife , stereotactic radiosurgery are some -like mentioned before. Sometimes PET studies are helpful.
depends on whether the tumor is aggressive or slow growing. Many optic gliomas grow very slowly. Surgery, steroids, radiotherapy, gamma knife and chemotherapy can be used to treat symptomatic tumors.
http://www.emedicine.com/radio/topic486.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/...