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Visual recovery after surgical decompression of an occipital intraventricular cyst. J Neuroophthalmol 2014 Sep;34(3):255-6

Date

06/05/2014

Pubmed ID

24897008

DOI

10.1097/WNO.0000000000000136

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-84906938489 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)

Abstract

: A 62-year-old woman presented with a chronic left homonymous visual field defect because of a right occipital cyst. Serial visual field examination documented stable visual fields for 12 months, after which there was worsening of visual fields associated with enlargement of the cyst. Surgical decompression of the occipital cyst resulted in marked improvement of the visual field defect over 9 months. This case demonstrates that surgical decompression of cystic lesions adjacent to posterior visual pathways can result in recovery of chronic visual field loss.

Author List

Vedantam A, Yoshor D, Foroozan R

Author

Aditya Vedantam MBBS Associate Professor in the Neurosurgery department at Medical College of Wisconsin




MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold

Brain Diseases
Cysts
Decompression, Surgical
Female
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Middle Aged
Occipital Lobe
Radiography
Recovery of Function
Tomography, Emission-Computed
Visual Field Tests
Visual Fields