Visual hallucinations after acute visual loss in a young child.
A four-year-old boy developed complex visual hallucinations consisting of moving figures, animals and other familiar objects one week after becoming totally blind. This followed a six-month period of gradually deteriorating vision and was precipitated by the debulking of a large optic nerve glioma. Although visual hallucinations are well recognised in adults with visual loss, secondary to both ophthalmological and neurological causes, they have not been reported in young children.
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Division of Child Neurology, University of British Columbia, British Columbia's Children's Hospital, Vancouver.
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D001766:Blindness / Q000503:physiopathology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003390:Cranial Nerve Neoplasms / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005910:Glioma / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006212:Hallucinations / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009900:Optic Nerve / Q000503:physiopathology; D009901:Optic Nerve Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D014795:Visual Pathways / Q000503:physiopathology; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*