Foster-Kennedy syndrome
The Foster-Kennedy Syndrome is characterized by
papilloedema in one eye and optic atrophy in the other. It results from simultaneous raised intracranial pressure and optic nerve compression secondary to tumour - classically, a meningioma of the olfactory groove, or more commonly, due to a meningioma of the sphenoid wing.
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