title: Palinopsia with bacterial brain abscess and Noonan syndrome.
abstract: Though positive visual symptoms can be psychological in nature, or can result from a perceptive or anxious patients recognizing optical principals in the eye itself, this case illustrates how a thorough history is required to delineate those rarer signs which accompany serious macular or neuro-ophthalmic pathology.
authors.affiliation: Ophthalmic Associates, Anchorage 99501, USA.
authors.forename: R W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Arnold
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Janis
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wellman
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Crouch
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rosen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000360:Afterimage / Q000502:physiology; D001922:Brain Abscess / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000601:surgery; D002439:Cefotaxime / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003399:Craniotomy; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006423:Hemianopsia / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008795:Metronidazole / Q000627:therapeutic use; D009634:Noonan Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D009778:Occipital Lobe / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D010296:Parietal Lobe / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D010468:Perceptual Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D013290:Streptococcal Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome
chemical_list: D008795:Metronidazole; D002439:Cefotaxime