Optic nerve sheath meningiomas, formerly thought to be rare, have been encountered with surprising frequency since the widespread use of computed tomography. Early diagnosis led to an enthusiastic ...

Nicola, an early years teacher, from Manchester, said: “I started experiencing tingling in my left cheek. At first, I thought ...

A teacher from Manchester dismissed a tingling feeling in her cheek as stress was ultimately diagnosed with a rare meningioma tumour in her brain. Nicola Shaw then underwent a ten-hour surgery, which ...

Thinking it was caused by stress, Shaw ignored the pain. However, it soon spread to her nose, eye and head becoming so ...

[143] Lesions within the brainstem may cause injury to the CN III, CN IV or CN VI nuclei or fascicles resulting in oculomotor, trochlear or abducens nerve ... MRI. Mimickers of demyelinating optic ...

When she went to see a doctor, they sent her to get an MRI ... showed that she had a meningioma — a tumor in a rare and dangerous location near her brain stem and optic nerve.