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 ...

optic nerve sheath meningioma (vision loss rarely acute) Lack of an afferent pupillary defect Various maculopathies, bilateral optic neuropathy (including bilateral DON), Susac syndrome ...

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.

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 ...