Patients with progressive blindness resulting from bony proliferative diseases such as
osteopetrosis may benefit from optic canal decompression. A radiologic technique is …

✓ Visual function was assessed in 15 eyes of 11 patients who underwent unilateral (seven
patients) or bilateral (four patients) optic canal decompression for presumed compressive …

OF THE many causes of progressive visual failure, one of the most important is that due to
compression of the optic nerveor chiasmby a surgically treatable lesion. In most instances …

Out of 8 cases of optic nerve injury patients treated between 1971 to 1974, the most recent 4
cases underwent decompression with the optic nerve sheath incision and these cases …

First proposed by De Wecker! in 1872 as a treatment for neuroretinitis, optic nerve sheath
decompression (or fenestration) is an operation that has caused much controversy. This …

OPTIC NERVE DEMYELINATION, COMPRESSION, TRAUMA, AND ISCHEMIA are well-
defined clinical entities that commonly resultin severe visual loss.", 2 Previous therapeutic …

• Twenty-three patients with chronic papilledema associated with pseudotumor cerebri
underwent" modified" optic nerve sheath decompression for treatment of visual acuity and …

The clinical signs and symptoms of surgically and autoptically proven lesions in the region of
the optic canal vary considerably and may mimic any other suprasellar compressive lesion …

✓ Blindness resulting from a decompressive craniotomy is uncommon. Five patients with
intracranial tumors and papilledema who developed a bilateral optic neuropathy during an …

Tomograms of the skull showed an enlarged sella turcica (fig. 4). Optic foramina were
normal. Pneumoencephalography combined with tomography demonstrated extension of …