Papilledema in childhood for diagnosis of pseudotumor cerebri or late hydrocephalus: a case report.
Vol. 174 No. 3 (2023), Case report
Vol. 174 No. 3 (2023)

Papilledema in childhood for diagnosis of pseudotumor cerebri or late hydrocephalus: a case report.: doi: 10.7417/CT.2023.2523

Case report
Published 2023-05-25
E.M. Vingolo
Fiorini Hospital Terracina AUSL, Terracina, Latina, Italy - Department of Sense Organs, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
M. Malvasi
Department of Sense Organs, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
S. Ciarlo
UOC of Neurosurgery, Santa Maria Goretti Hospital, Latina, Italy
A. Pompucci
UOC of Neurosurgery, Santa Maria Goretti Hospital, Latina, Italy
F. Pacella
Department of Sense Organs, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
E. Pacella
Department of Sense Organs, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Abstract

A case of hydrocephalus is presented in a 13-year-old female with transient loss of vision from 1 week and papilledema, previous ophtalmological history was negative. Visual field was performed, and neurogical examination proved to be hydrocephalus. In literature few cases of Papilledema in adolescent children with hydrocephalus has been reported. The aim of this case report is to decode the signs, symptoms and factors associated with papilledema in children with hydrocephalus at an early stage in order to prevent a poor visual-functional residual (permanent low vision).

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