BILATERAL MASSIVE GLIOSIS OF THE RETINA INVOLVING THE OPTIC NERVES: Report of a Case

A 40-year-old woman, blind in her right eye since childhood and in the left since the age of 15, presented a gliomatous tumoral mass filling up the eyes completely. Sections of the optic nerve of one eye showed the same cellular aspect noted in both intraocular tumors. The optic foramina had a normal size and there were no signs of Recklinghausen's disease. The diagnosis was bilateral reactive gliosis but the presence of a congenital anomaly has to be postulated in order to explain the involvement of the optic nerve in the process of intraocular gliosis.