Journal article
Patients with persistent pain after enucleation studied by MRI dynamic color mapping and histopathology
Investigative ophthalmology & visual science, Vol.42(10), pp.2188-2192
09/2001
PMID: 11527929
Abstract
To study possible causes of persistent pain in patients who underwent enucleation of the globe and in whom all other noninvasively detectable causes of pain had been ruled out. Twenty patients were studied, 10 with intractable pain (score >5 on a 0-to-9 self-reporting pain scale) persisting for more than 6 months after enucleation (for various reasons) and 10 without pain (score <4) at least 6 months after enucleation. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with dynamic color mapping (MRI-DCM) was used to quantify the motion of the optic nerve in millimeters per degree of gaze, 2 to 3 mm behind the implant. Histopathologic study of biopsy specimens was used to verify imaging findings. The optic nerve was attached to the implant in almost all (19/20) patients. On average, the motion was significantly less in patients with persistent intractable pain (0.04 mm/deg) than in patients without pain (0.08 mm/deg; normal orbit, 0.13 mm/deg). A biopsy specimen was available in 5 of 10 patients with persistent pain, and in 4 of those 5, microscopic neuroma was found close to the optic nerve-implant junction. In the enucleated orbit, the optic nerve is usually attached to the implant and soft tissue motion is decreased. In patients who have persistent pain after enucleation, motion is decreased even more, and a high percentage of microscopic amputation neuromas are found. Increased stiffness of orbital soft tissue and optic nerve attachment after enucleation are detectable using MRI-DCM, and may play a role in susceptible patients in the development of microscopic amputation neuroma and pain.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Patients with persistent pain after enucleation studied by MRI dynamic color mapping and histopathology
- Creators
- M D Abràmoff - Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands. michael@isi.uu.nlL P RamosG H JansenM P Mourits
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Investigative ophthalmology & visual science, Vol.42(10), pp.2188-2192
- Publisher
- United States
- PMID
- 11527929
- ISSN
- 0146-0404
- eISSN
- 1552-5783
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/2001
- Academic Unit
- Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering; Electrical and Computer Engineering; Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9983806285402771
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