Case Report

Bilateral Optic Nerve Sheath Decompression in Pseudotumor Cerebri With Chronic Papilledema

  • Dilek Yüksel
  • Uğur Emrah Altıparmak
  • Bekir Sıtkı Aslan
  • Sunay Duman

Turk J Ophthalmol 2007;37(5):381-384

Pseudotumor cerebri is a disease characterized by increased intracranial pressure and papilledema without intracranial pathology. Our case is a patient that underwent bilateral optic nevre sheath decompression because of chronic atrophic papilledema due to pseudotumor cerebri.

Keywords: Pseudotumor cerebri, optic nevre sheath decompression, papilledema