Abstract
Retrobulbar neuritis with central scotoma and primary optic atrophy on the side of the lesion and concomitant papilledema in the opposite eye as a syndrome in intracranial tumors of the anterior fossa was stressed by Kennedy 1 in 1911. In the same year Paton and Holmes, in a study of brain tumors, state: We have examined a case in which a basal tumor compressed one optic nerve before its exit through the optic foramen and produced a retrograde atrophy of the nerve fibers and ganglion cells, and sclerosis of the nerve and disc. There was no edema... In the other eye there was typical papilledema. Similar cases had been observed in isolated instances. Willbrand and Saenger 2 quote Seydel, who observed in a man aged 47, slight paresis of the right half of the body and trembling of the extremities, beginning in the right arm. At the age of 32
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