PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Kupersmith, Mark J.
AU  - Vargas, Marino
AU  - Hoyt, William F.
AU  - Berenstein, Alejandro
TI  - Optic tract atrophy with cerebral arteriovenous malformations
AID  - 10.1212/WNL.44.1.80
DP  - 1994 Jan 01
TA  - Neurology
PG  - 80--80
VI  - 44
IP  - 1
4099  - http://n.neurology.org/content/44/1/80.short
4100  - http://n.neurology.org/content/44/1/80.full
SO  - Neurology1994 Jan 01; 44
AB  - Three patients with postgeniculate cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVM) had band atrophy of the contralateral optic nerve. One patient had homonymous hemioptic hypoplasia. These cases might have been construed as demonstrating transsynaptic degeneration across the lateral geniculate nucleus to the anterior visual pathway. However, neuroimaging studies revealed abnormal deep venous drainage remote from the AVM nidus that directly involved the lateral geniculate nucleus and posterior optic tract.