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As a practicing clinician, diseases affecting the optic nerve are most frequently seen by manifesting in unilateral blurred vision or loss of vision. Fundoscopy is usually negative (this is the case when ‘neither the patient nor the doctor can see anything’). The possible underlying causes can include demyelination, compression, infiltrative process, inflammation, trauma or ischemia. A common feature of all of these conditions is that the optic nerve is injured behind the optic disc: within the intraorbital, the intracanalicular or intracranial space.
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Lovas, G. (2016). Retrobulbar Optic Neuropathy: From the Neurologist’s Approach. In: Somlai, J., Kovács, T. (eds) Neuro-Ophthalmology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28956-4_40
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