Foster Kennedy Syndrome
| Classification according to ICD-10 | |
|---|---|
| H47.0 | Optic nerve affections, not elsewhere classified |
| ICD-10 online (WHO version 2019) | |
The Foster Kennedy syndrome , also known as Kennedy's disease or Gowers-Paton-Kennedy syndrome refers to the increase arises in intracranial pressure and simultaneous compression of the optic nerve . The cause is usually a space-occupying new formation at the base of the frontal lobe . The result is atrophy of the compressed optic nerve ( optic atrophy ) on the side of the mass and a unilateral congestive papilla on the other (contralateral) side. The atrophied optic nerve does not develop papillary edema.
It can be caused by tumors (often meningiomas ) in the area of the sphenoid wing or the frontal lobe . The Foster-Kennedy syndrome is named after the Irish-American neurologist Robert Foster Kennedy , who first described it in 1911.
Foster Kennedy syndrome is to be distinguished from Kennedy's disease ( spinobulbar muscular atrophy type Kennedy , SBMA), which is named after the neurologist William R. Kennedy and is a completely different clinical picture.
literature
- Foster Kennedy : Retrobulbar neuritis as an exact diagnostic sign of certain tumors and abscesses in the frontal lobe. In: The American Journal of the Medical Sciences. Vol. 142, No. 3, 1911, ISSN 0002-9629 , pp. 355-368.
