“…Different recommandations have been given for the stage of the patient, the time of operation, and the operative route 4, 8, 12,27, 29, 30, 35, 37, 41M3, 47, 49, 51. Even in the most recent literature, the aetiology and therapy of these traumatic visual disturbances have been discussed with different results 2, 12, 13, ~8, 28,31,40,41,45. It appears possible that this is due not only to the clinical and morphological difficulties already mentioned but also to the fact that the traumatic aetiology is only a special example of vascular lesions of the visual pathways in connection with raised intracranial pressure.…”