[The intracranial hypertension in the course of Arnold-Chiari malformation].
OBJECTIVE
The aim of this study was to remind the symptoms and diagnostic methods helpful to recognize Arnold Chiari syndrome.


METHODS
We have presented a 53-year-old woman with papilledema who was operated and treated oncologically because of right breast tumor - four years ago. As a result of diagnostic research which took into consideration a brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the suspicion of metastatic cerebral tumor was excluded and Arnold - Chiari malformation was diagnosed.


CONCLUSIONS
The intracranial hypertension and it's ocular manifestation - papilloedema may be caused by different, also congenital, reasons. The brain MRI is the mainly procedure to diagnose the Arnold - Chiari malformation.
Zatorska
Barbara
B
Z Katedry i Oddziału Klinicznego Okulistyki Slaskiej Akademii Medycznej w Katowicach, Szpital Specjalistyczny nr 1 w Bytomiu.
Herba
Ewa
E
Pojda-Wilczek
Dorota
D
Jedrzejewski
Wojciech
W
Pojda
Stefan M
SM
D001139:Arnold-Chiari Malformation / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology*; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D019586:Intracranial Hypertension / Q000150:complications*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D009898:Optic Disk / Q000473:pathology; D010211:Papilledema / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy