title: A Rare Hydrocephalus Complication: Cortical Blindness.
abstract: Cortical blindness related to bilateral occipital lobe infarction is an extremely rare complication of hydrocephalus. Compression of the posterior cerebral artery, secondary to tentorial herniation, is the cause of occipital infarction. Particularly in children and mentally ill patients, cortical blindness may be missed. Therefore, early diagnosis and treatment of hydrocephalus is important. We present herein a child of ventricular shunt malfunction complicated by cortical blindness.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey. emreunal.rad@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Emre
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ünal
authors.forename: Rahşan
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Göçmen
authors.forename: Ayşe İlksen
authors.initials: Aİ
authors.lastname: Işıkay
authors.forename: Özlem
authors.initials: Ö
authors.lastname: Tekşam
mesh_terms: D019575:Blindness, Cortical / Q000209:etiology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004677:Encephalocele / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D006849:Hydrocephalus / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D009778:Occipital Lobe / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed