title: Diagnostic and therapeutic doubts in retrobulbar neuritis in children.
abstract: Retrobulbar neuritis is often very complicated clinical entity. The most common cause of retrobulbar neuritis is demyelinating disease of CNS. This report is to express some other uncommon causes of it. Three children, age 8 to 12 with sudden and severe visual loss are presented. The diagnosis of retrobulbar neuritis is made by complete ophtalmological examination in consultation with neuropediatrics and neuroradiologist. Different ethiological causes of retrobulbar neuritis are found: pranasal sinusitis, functional visual loss and pseudotumor cerebri. In first two children complete therapeutically effort was as expected, and by child with pseudotumor cerebri there was no improvement of visual acuity, even after 6 months. In this presentation the authors want to emphasise some uncommon causes of retrobulbar neuritis.
authors.affiliation: University Department of Ophthalmology, Clinical Hospital, Systers of Mercy, Zagreb, Croatia. maja.corak@zg.htnet.hr
authors.forename: Maja
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Corak
authors.forename: Biserka
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Baćani
authors.forename: Ljerka
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cvitanović-Sojat
authors.forename: Katia
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Novak-Laus
authors.forename: Ognjen
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Zrinsćak
authors.forename: Zdravko
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Mandić
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009902:Optic Neuritis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology; D011559:Pseudotumor Cerebri / Q000175:diagnosis; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis