Intracranial migration of silicone oil through the optic nerve post-vitrect

• Autores: Quispe Huachaca, Jhonathan Percy, Victorio Avila, Cesar Antonio, Padilla Flores, Juan Roberto
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2019
• Institución: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.csi.unmsm:article/16416
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/anales/article/view/16416
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto

The intracranial migration of intraocular silicone oil is a rare complication in the treatment of complications of diabetic retinopathy. Several possible etiopathogenic mechanisms have been published to explain this phenomenon of migration. Silicone oil appears hyperdense on tomography, being a challenge to distinguish it from subarachnoid hemorrhage, highlighting the usefulness of magnetic resonance imaging. In patients with evidence of previous silicone retinopexy, the visualization of an intraventricular lesion with a chemical displacement device presents the possibility that it is a migration of the silicone oil. To present the case of a patient with a history of retinopexy with silicone oil and intense headache, identifying the migration of silicone oil in the ventricular system with tomography and resonance studies.