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Foster-Kennedy syndrome
Not to be confused with Kennedy disease.
Etiology:
- brain neoplasm of frontal lobe
- meningioma
Epidemiology:
- rare
Pathology:
- optic nerve compression
- olfactory nerve compression
- increased intracranial pressure
Clinical manifestations:
- can manifest as acute visual loss
- optic atrophy in the ipsilateral eye
- optic disc edema in the contralateral eye
- central scotoma in the ipsilateral eye
- anosmia ipsilaterally
- nausea/vomiting
- memory loss
- emotional lability
Related
X-linked bulbospinal muscular atrophy (Kennedy's disease)
General
syndrome
eye disease (ophthalmopathy)
References
- Wikipedia: Foster Kennedy syndrome
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster_Kennedy_syndrome
- Pastora-Salvador N and Peralta-Calvo J
Foster Kennedy syndrome: papilledema in one eye with optic
atrophy in the other eye.
CMAJ December 13, 2011 vol. 183 no. 18
http://www.cmaj.ca/content/183/18/2135.full
- Walia HS et al
An Aggressive Sphenoid Wing Meningioma Causing Foster Kennedy
Syndrome.
Case Reports in Ophthalmological Medicine. Volume 2012 (2012)
http://www.hindawi.com/crim/ophmed/2012/102365/