PURPOSE To report a rare case of idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) in a prepubertal pediatric patient. CASE REPORT The patient was an 11-year-old Japanese boy. Initially, an ophthalmologist found severe papilledema, and the patient was diagnosed with IIH. He was unresponsive to conservative therapy, and a ventriculoperitoneal shunt was inserted in the Neurosurgery Department because ...

One of the major causes of misdiagnosis of papilledema is buried drusen of the optic nerve head [1, 2]. Optic nerve drusen are calcified concretions of unknown etiology, located within the optic nerve head just anterior to the lamina cribrosa. As these concretions enlarge they may become visible ophthalmoscopically. When buried in the nerve head, they may cause difficulties in the ophthalmoscop...

El linfoma de Burkitt (LB) es un tipo de linfoma no odgkin de células B de crecimiento rápido que afecta niños y adultos jóvenes y que puede presentarse de orma endémica en África, esporádicamente o asociada a nmunodeficiencias. De comienzo brusco y crecimiento agreivo, se produce por la traslocación en el gen c-Myc del romosoma 81. Fue descrito en el año 1958 por el ciruano irlandés Denis Pars...

Takayasu arteritis is a relatively rare inflammatory arteritis that can be associated with ocular manifestations. We report four patients with proven Takayasu arteritis; two patients manifested hypoperfusive ocular manifestations of ocular ischemic syndrome and anterior ischemic optic neuropathy whilst two others had exudative retinal detachment and papilledema as a result of severe hypertensio...

We examined 4 patients in the past 6 years who were first seen at our institution because of metamorphopsia and who were eventually diagnosed as having idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH). Idiopathic intracranial hypertension is a condition of elevated intracranial pressure that occurs primarily in young women. Neuroimaging findings and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) indices are normal. Its c...

Objective. Meningiomas are benign primary meningeal tumors and are seen rare in children and adolescents. Clinical Presentation and Intervention. A 15-year-old Turkish boy reported a 1-month history of headache and blurred vision in both eyes. His visual acuity was 0.3 in both eyes with papilledema. Magnetic resonance imaging showed a 77 × 97 × 77 mm intracranial-extra-axial frontal lesion whic...

Pseudotumor cerebri or benign intracranial hypertension is characterized by increased intracranial hypertension without evidence of a mass lesion or ventricular obstruction. Symptoms are mainly headache and papilledema. If untreated, papilledema can cause progressive irreversible visual loss and optic atrophy. Usually occurs in obese women and in the childbearing years. It is a diagnosis of exc...

CASE REPORT A 46-year-old woman, who presented with right visual acuity loss, was found to have papilledema, and subsequently shown to have ventricular dilatation in a cerebral Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) assessment. Elevated protein levels were found in the cerebrospinal fluid. Spinal MRI revealed the presence of a spinal cord neoplasm. After surgical removal of the tumor, which turned ou...