Pseudo-Foster Kennedy Syndrome due to unilateral optic nerve hypoplasia: a case report.
BACKGROUND
Pseudo-Foster Kennedy Syndrome is described as unilateral optic disc swelling with contralateral optic atrophy in the absence of an intracranial mass causing compression of the optic nerve. This occurs typically due to bilateral sequential optic neuritis or ischaemic optic neuropathy.


METHODS
We describe a case of pseudo-Foster Kennedy Syndrome in a two year old boy with unilateral papilloedema due to a congenital optic disc anomaly in one eye preventing transmission of raised intracranial pressure to the optic nerve.


CONCLUSIONS
From our findings we conclude that congenital optic nerve hypoplasia is a cause of pseudo-Foster Kennedy Syndrome.
Bansal
Shveta
S
Department of Ophthalmology, St James' University Hospital, Leeds, UK. shveta.ophth@gmail.com
Dabbs
Timothy
T
Long
Vernon
V