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Optic disk drusen in children.
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43 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 126 citations in OpenAlex.
- Optic disc drusen: a systematic review : Up-to-date and future perspective.International ophthalmology · 2020Pooled it
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- Diagnostic Utility of Paton's Folds and Quantitative OCT Metrics in Pediatric Papilledema.Ophthalmology · 2026Article
- Optic Disc Flavoprotein Fluorescence Imaging as a Novel Method to Quantify Disease Burden in Optic Disc Drusen.American journal of ophthalmology · 2026Article
- Agreement and Accuracy of Papilledema and Pseudopapilledema Classification Among Pediatric Neuro-Ophthalmologists Using Optic Disc Photographs.Journal of neuro-ophthalmology : the official journal of the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society · 2025Observational
- Effect of Intraocular Pressure Lowering Treatment on Peripapillary and Macular Vessel Density on Normotensive Eyes with Optic Disc Drusen: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Neuro-ophthalmology (Aeolus Press) · 2025Article
- Axonal Energy Crisis and Calcium Phosphate Dysregulation as Pathogenesis of Optic Disc Drusen.Aging and disease · 2024Review
- Distinguishing Papilledema from Pseudopapilledema in Children.Advances in ophthalmology and optometry · 2024Article
- Optic disc drusen: Dystrophic calcification, a potential target for treatment.Eye (London, England) · 2024Review
- Diagnostic dilemma of papilledema and pseudopapilledema.International ophthalmology · 2024Review
- Pediatric orbital lesions: ocular pathologies.Pediatric radiology · 2024Article
- Clinical Findings and Optical Coherence Tomography Measurements of Pediatric Patients with Papilledema and Pseudopapilledema.Turkish journal of ophthalmology · 2023Article
- Optic nerve sheath diameter and axial length in patients with optic disc drusen: a cross-sectional study.International ophthalmology · 2023Article
- Morpho-Functional Assessment of Retinal Ganglion Cells and Visual Pathways in Patients with Optic Disc Drusen: Superficial Drusen Visible Height as a Marker of Impairment.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Comparison of Spectral-Domain OCT versus Swept-Source OCT for the Detection of Deep Optic Disc Drusen.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Pediatric Headache in Primary Care and Emergency Departments: Consensus with RAND/UCLA Method.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Evaluation of the signs and symptoms of pseudotumor cerebri syndrome in pediatric population.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2021Article
- Multimodal Imaging Features of Optic Disc Drusen.American journal of ophthalmology · 2021Article
- Peripapillary vessel density in pediatric cases with buried optic disk drusen.International ophthalmology · 2021Article
- Microvascular alterations in children with optic disk drusen evaluated by optical coherence tomography angiography.Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2021Article
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Abstract
Optic disk drusen occur in 0.4% of children and consist of acellular intracellular and extracellular deposits that often become calcified over time. They are typically buried early in life and generally become superficial, and therefore visible, later in childhood, at the average age of 12 years. Their main clinical significance lies in the ability of optic disk drusen, particularly when buried, to simulate true optic disk edema. Misdiagnosing drusen as true disk edema may lead to an invasive and unnecessary workup for elevated intracranial pressure. Ancillary testing, including ultrasonography, fluorescein angiography, fundus autofluorescence, and optical coherence tomography, may aid in the correct diagnosis of optic disk drusen. Complications of optic disk drusen in children include visual field defects, hemorrhages, choroidal neovascular membrane, nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy, and retinal vascular occlusions. Treatment options for these complications include ocular hypotensive agents for visual field defects and intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor agents for choroidal neovascular membranes. In most cases, however, children with optic disk drusen can be managed by observation with serial examinations and visual field testing once true optic disk edema has been excluded.
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