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Case Reports
. 1980 May;89(5):703-7.
doi: 10.1016/0002-9394(80)90291-3.

Disappearing opticociliary shunt vessels and pseudotumor cerebri

J C Perlmutter, T G Klingele, W M Hart Jr, R M Burde
Case Reports

Disappearing opticociliary shunt vessels and pseudotumor cerebri

J C Perlmutter et al. Am J Ophthalmol. 1980 May.

Abstract

In two patients opticociliary venous shunts occurred in association with pseudotumor cerebri. One patient underwent bilateral optic nerve sheath fenestrations, after which her papilledema resolved, and the opticociliary venous shunts were noted to be markedly decreased in caliber.

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