Cortical blindness after motorcycle accident: a case report
Sinawat, S.; Ratanapakorn, T.; Yospaiboon, Y.
Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand 89(3): 380-383
2006
ISSN/ISBN: 0125-2208 PMID: 16696424 Document Number: 2206
A 47 year-old Thai man presented with acute bilateral blindness after suffering head trauma in a motorcycle accident. No neurological deficit was found The visual acuity was light perception with poor light projection on both eyes. Other ocular examinations were normal except ecchymosis on both lower eyelids and mild subconjunctival hemorrhage on the left eye. Emergency computerized tomography showed normal appearance of optic nerves, optic canals and multiple contusional intracerebral hemorrhages at both occipital lobes. This case demonstrated a rare condition of permanent cortical blindness without other neurological deficits resulting from a head trauma.
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