[Blindness due to head injury in an adolescent patient].
We describe the case of a 15 year old male adolescent with blindness of the right eye secondary to frontal head injury and blindness as the sole complication. Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging studies were both normal. We postulate a non anatomical severing of the optic nerve as the etiological cause for blindness. Clinical management included intraocular steroids. The patient was discharged with unilateral blindness and followed-up in outpatient care.
Flores-Nava
Gerardo
G
División de Pediatría, Hospital General Dr. Manuel Gea González, SSA, México DF, México. gerflores50@hotmail.com
Avendaño-Dionisio
Ada Ruth
AR
Salazar-Herrera
María Cristina
MC
Vázquez-Zavala
Genoveva
G
Lavalle-Villalobos
Antonio
A
D000293:Adolescent; D001766:Blindness / Q000209:etiology*; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male