Conversion disorder is a neurological disturbance in which systemic symptoms are unconscious, thus not under the control of the child. Conversion disorder is a manifestation of a stressful or traumatic event. Physical symptoms may occur with motor and sensorial disturbances, including visual reactions which may lead the practitioner to suspect an organic cause. Visual symptoms include visual ac...

Visual disorders are an important symptom in the migraine of developing age. Different kinds of visual disturbances can precede, accompany or follow a migraine attack. These visual disturbances can be grouped into negative (hemianopsia, quadrantopsia, scotoma) and positive (phosphene, teicopsia, metamorphopsia, macropsia, micropsia, teleopsia, diplopia, dischromatopsia, hallucination disturbanc...

OBJECTIVES A sphenoid sinus fungal ball is a rare disease that can cause visual disturbances. Most afflicted patients remain in an indolent state. However, once the visual disturbance has occurred, the recovery rate is very low. The purpose of this study was to overview the clinical characteristics of patients with a sphenoid sinus fungal ball and ascertain factors possibly related to the occur...

fibrous dysplasia (fd) is an osseous growth dis-order, producing immature bone and characte-rized by the replacement of normal bone with fibro-osseous connective tissue. it is a bone dys-plasia that has the potential to cause significant cosmetic and functional disturbances, particularly in the craniofacial skeleton. cra-niofacial fibrous dysplasia is one of the three types of polyostotic fibro...