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Kennedy's syndrome
Also known as:
Kennedy's phenomenon
Foster Kennedy's syndrome
Gowers-Paton-Kennedy syndrome
Associated persons:
Sir William Richard Gowers
Robert Foster Kennedy
Leslie Paton
Description:
Condition characterised by unilateral ipsilateral atrophy with contralateral papilloedema, central scotoma, and anosmia (absence of the sense of smell) usually due to a frontal lobe tumour or a meningioma of the optic nerve. There may be headache, dizziness, vertigo; occasionally, forceful vomiting, psychic changes (moria), memory loss.
The condition was first described by William Gowers in 1893. P. Schultz-Zehden described the symptoms in 1905, Paton in 1909. The first extensive and thorough account was made by Foster Kennedy in 1911. Later description by Wilhelm Uhthoff (1853-1927) in 1915.
Bibliography:
- P. Schultz-Zehden:
Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Genese einseitiger Stauungspapille.
Klinische Monatsblätter für Augenheilkunde, Stuttgart, 1905, 43/II: 153.
- F. Kennedy:
Retrobulbar neuritis as an exact diagnostic sign of certain tumors and abscesses in the frontal lobe.
American Journal of the Medical Sciences, Thorofare, N.J., 1911, 142: 355-368.
- W. Uhthoff:
Augensymptome bei Grosshirntumoren.
Gräfe-Sämisch: Handbuch der Augenheilkunde, 1915. Volume I: 1143.
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