title: Familial idiopathic intracranial hypertension with spinal and radicular pain.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe a mother and her 2 sons affected by idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), associated in the sons with root irritation symptom. Unlike the other 4 families reported previously, obesity was not present in our patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  Case reports.
  
  
  METHODS
  Department of pediatrics in a university school of Medicine, Naples, Italy.
  
  
  METHODS
  A mother (aged 36 years) and her 2 sons (aged 14 and 9 years) developed IIH at different times. Neuroimaging showed an empty sella in the mother, while IIH was associated with spinal and radicular pain in her 2 sons. The mother and the younger son developed permanent visual loss.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Ophthalmologic follow-up in our patients indicates that IIH is a chronic disease. Surgical treatment should be considered an option.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Second Pediatric Clinic, Second University of Naples, Italy.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Santinelli
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tolone
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Toraldo
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Canino
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: De Simone
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: D'Avanzo
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D019586:Intracranial Hypertension / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000235:genetics*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology*; D011128:Polyradiculopathy / Q000209:etiology*; D012658:Sella Turcica / Q000473:pathology; D013131:Spine; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000209:etiology