MRI Screening for Optic Gliomas in Neurofibromatosis Type 1

Abstract

Investigators from Cincinnati Children's Hospital, OH, analysed retrospectively the utility of screening brain/orbital MRIs in 826 children with NF1 (ages 1-9 years; 402 female, 424 male) seen over a 20-year period between 1990 and 2010.

Keywords

• neurofibromatosis type 1
• optic pathway gliomas
• brain/orbit mri