title: [Blindness due to head injury in an adolescent patient].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: División de Pediatría, Hospital General Dr. Manuel Gea González, SSA, México DF, México. gerflores50@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Gerardo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Flores-Nava
authors.forename: Ada Ruth
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Avendaño-Dionisio
authors.forename: María Cristina
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Salazar-Herrera
authors.forename: Genoveva
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Vázquez-Zavala
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lavalle-Villalobos
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001766:Blindness / Q000209:etiology*; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male