Patulous Subarachnoid Space of the Optic Nerve Associated with X-Linked Hypophosphatemic Rickets

ABSTRACT

Although the deficiency forms are the most common manifestations of rickets, there are other forms of rickets that are resistant to vitamin D. Of these, the most common is X-linked hypophosphatemic rickets. Rickets represents a group of multiple cranial bone disorders—craniosynostosis and the presence of Chari I malformation being the most notable—that explain the increase in intracranial pressure. We present a 4-year-old patient with an unusual association of X-linked hypophosphataemic rickets, bilateral proptosis, and prominent bilateral widening of the optic nerve sheaths. Although the association between intracranial hypertension and rickets is known, to the best of our knowledge, such a prominent distention of the subarachnoid space of the optic nerve without papilloedema has not been previously described.

• Craniosynostosis
• intracranial hypertension
• optic nerve sheath
• proptosis
• X-linked hypophosphataemic rickets

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