Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Pseudo-Foster Kennedy Syndrome due to unilateral optic nerve hypoplasia: a case report | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Central Open Access Case report Pseudo-Foster Kennedy Syndrome due to unilateral optic nerve hypoplasia a case report Shveta Bansal Timothy Dabbs and Vernon Long Address Department of Ophthalmology St James University Hospital Leeds UK Email Shveta Bansal - Timothy Dabbs - Vernon Long - Corresponding author Published 18 March 2008 Received 4 November 2007 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2008 2 86 doi 1752-1947-2-86 Accepted 18 March 2008 This article is available from http content 2 l 86 2008 Bansal et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract 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 with unilateral papilloedema due to a congenital optic disc anomaly in one eye preventing transmission of raised intracranial pressure to the optic nerve. Conclusion From our findings we conclude that congenital optic nerve hypoplasia is a cause of pseudo-Foster Kennedy Syndrome. Introduction Foster Kennedy Syndrome is unilateral optic disc swelling with contralateral optic atrophy usually due to a frontal lobe tumour compressing the optic nerve on one side and resulting in papilloedema contralaterally. In the absence of an intracranial mass these findings may be labelled as pseudo-Foster Kennedy Syndrome. Case presentation A two .
