Visual loss without headache in children with pseudotumor cerebri and growth hormone treatment

Neuropediatrics

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 203-207

  Besch, Dorothea ^a   Makowski, Christine ^b   Steinborn, Marc Matthias ^b   Bonfig, Walter ^b   Sadowski, Bettina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Klinikum Schwabing   (Germany)

Author keywords

growth hormone; papilledema; pediatric idiopathic intracranial hypertension; pediatric pseudotumor cerebri; visual loss

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; CORTICOSTEROID; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; POTASSIUM; VITAMIN B COMPLEX;

ARTICLE; BRAIN PSEUDOTUMOR; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CHILD; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECHOGRAPHY; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROWTH DISORDER; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; NEUROIMAGING; PAPILLEDEMA; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SLIT LAMP; SUBRETINAL FLUID; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

BLINDNESS; CHILD; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PSEUDOTUMOR CEREBRI; VISUAL FIELD TESTS;

EID: 84880327876     PISSN: 0174304X     EISSN: 14391899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1330855     Document Type: Article

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