how to cite this article: fadakar k, dadkhahfar s, esmaeili a, keyhanidoust z. a case of schizencephaly and septo-optic dysplasia presenting with anterior encephalocele. iran j child neurol autumn 2012; 6(4):47-50.   abstract schizencephaly is a rare central nervous system disorder with variable presentations. here we report a patient with a huge bilateral schizencephaly and septo-optic dysplas...

PURPOSE The defining feature of glaucoma is excavation of the optic nerve head; however, the mechanism of this loss of tissue is not well understood. We recently discovered a copy number variation upstream of matrix metalloproteinase 19 (MMP19) in a large, autosomal dominant pedigree with a congenital malformation of the optic disc called cavitary optic disc anomaly (CODA). Patients with CODA h...

INTRODUCTION Pseudo-Foster Kennedy Syndrome is described as unilateral optic disc swelling with contralateral optic atrophy in the absence of an intracranial mass causing compression of the optic nerve. This occurs typically due to bilateral sequential optic neuritis or ischaemic optic neuropathy. CASE PRESENTATION We describe a case of pseudo-Foster Kennedy Syndrome in a two year old boy wit...

TOPICAL DIAGNOSIS OF OPTIC CHIASMAL LESIONS TOPICAL DIAGNOSIS OF RETROCHIASMAL VISUAL FIELD Visual Field Defects DEFECTS Etiologies of the Optic Chiasmal Syndrome Topical Diagnosis of Optic Tract Lesions Masqueraders of the Optic Chiasmal Syndrome Topical Diagnosis of Lesions of the Lateral Geniculate Body Pathophysiology of the Optic Chiasmal Syndrome Topical Diagnosis of Lesions of the Optic ...

purpose : to report two patients with spontaneous scleral perforation and bleb formation associated with marfan syndrome (mfs) which one of them also showed bilateral optic nerve dural ectasia. case reports : an 11-year-old girl was referred with progressive myopia. past medical history was negative. slit-lamp examination revealed bilateral scleral thinning and perforation with bleb formation, ...

OBJECTIVE To compare the visual evoked potentials (VEP) in patients with acute optic neuritis, recurrent optic neuritis, and optic neuritis with multiple sclerosis. MATERIAL AND METHOD The authors retrospectively reviewed VEP latency records of the patients with optic neuritis in Siriraj Hospital from 1995 to 2005 and divided them into three groups, acute optic neuritis, recurrent optic neuri...

 Background: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory and demyelinating disease of central nervous system (CNS). The aim of the present study was to determine the type and the frequency of initial presenting symptoms in patients with MS and their relation with demographic characteristics in Babol, northern Iran. Methods: All patients of this study were recruited over a ten year period fr...