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Reversal of Visual Loss From Skull Base Osteomyelitis in a Pediatric Patient

Year: 2020

Type: article

Abstract: Apreviously healthy 9-year-old girl with sickle cell the trait presented with one day of vision loss in the left eye preceded by one week of frontal headaches and pain on eye movement.On initial examination, best-corrected visual acuities were 20/30 in the right eye and 20/50 in the left eye.Ishihara color plates were full on the right and diminished to the test plate only on the left.A relative afferent pupillary defect was present on left without anisocoria.Confrontational visual field testing revealed a dense inferior defect in the left eye.There was 2-mm ptosis and mild edema of the left upper eyelid.Extraocular motility, exophthalmometry, cranial nerve examination, intraocular pressure, and anterior segment

Source: Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology

DOI: 10.1097/wno.0000000000001110

Authors: Kevin K. Ma, Caroline D. Robson, Eric D. Gaier, Ryan Gise

Institutions: Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston Children's Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University

Language: English

Topic: Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis

Subfield: Neurology

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Eye Institute