Unilateral Blindness due to Patient Positioning During Cervical Syringomyelia Surgery
- 1 July 1996
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology
- Vol. 8 (3) , 227-229
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00008506-199607000-00007
Abstract
During spinal surgery using a horseshoe headrest with the patient in the prone position, the possibility of central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO) increases, and its cause can be attributed primarily to excessive extraocular pressure, a very rare complication. This report describes a case of CRAO, occurring in an adult, after cervical syringomyelia surgery in which a horseshoe headrest was used.Keywords
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