Pseudo-Foster Kennedy syndrome in a patient with anterior ischemic optic neuropathy and a nonbasal glioma.

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Title Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology, September 1990, Volume 10, Issue 3
Date 1990-09
Language eng
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Type Text
Publication Type Journal Article
Collection Neuro-ophthalmology Virtual Education Library: NOVEL http://NOVEL.utah.edu
Publisher Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
Holding Institution Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah, 10 N 1900 E SLC, UT 84112-5890
Rights Management © North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society
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Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6rv3tsb

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Title Pseudo-Foster Kennedy syndrome in a patient with anterior ischemic optic neuropathy and a nonbasal glioma.
Creator Limaye, S.R.; Adler, J.
Affiliation Ophthalmology Service, D.C. General Hospital, Washington 20003.
Abstract A 49-year-old woman with a 6-year history of headaches was found to have a pale right optic disc with narrowed retinal arterioles and a congested left optic disc. Her visual acuity was 20/20 in each eye with normal visual fields in May 1983. These findings were attributed to a previous attack of non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (AION). She had a normal neurologic examination and a normal head computed tomographic (CT) scan performed 2 years prior to her initial ophthalmologic evaluation. She was followed over the next 2 years without change in her fundus examination. In December 1987, after a generalized tonic-clonic seizure, she was found to have a large right frontoparietal mass without direct impingement on the optic nerves, or chiasm on neuroradiological studies. At this time she developed marked papilledema in the left eye with a pale optic disc in the right eye remaining unchanged. Histopathological diagnosis of malignant glioma was made. Two diseases, ischemic optic neuropathy and glioma, in one patient represents a bizarre example of the pseudo-Foster Kennedy syndrome.
Subject Adult; Cranial Nerve Neoplasm; Female; Fundus Oculi; Glioma; Humans; Ischemia; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Optic Disk; Optic Nerve Diseases; Papilledema; Syndrome; Visual Fields
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