title: [Post-traumatic transient cortical blindness].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Transient cortical blindness is a rare complication of mild head trauma in children. This spectacular manifestation always has a benign outcome.
  
  
  METHODS
  A five-year-old girl was admitted for bilateral blindness immediately following a fall with frontal head injury. Neurological examinations and ophthalmological investigations showed no abnormalities. The electroencephalogram showed slow waves in the left occipital area. The blindness resolved completely within 3 hours.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This bilateral blindness was similar to that of the 40 cases reported since 1964, including a rapid and benign outcome. Its mechanism is not clear, although some suggest a cerebral vasospasm. Our patient's mother has a history of migraine.
authors.affiliation: Service de Neurochirurgie Pédiatrique, Centre de Pédiatrie Gatien-de-Clocheville, Tours.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chalumeau
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cantagrel
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Barthez-Carpentier
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Maheut-Lourmière
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Santini
mesh_terms: D001766:Blindness / Q000209:etiology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D013997:Time Factors
vernacular_title: Cécité corticale transitoire post-traumatique.