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Twenty-nine definite patients have been examined by means of visual field examination and visual evoked potentials (VEP). Visual field examination was performed by Friedmann visual field analysis, kinetic perimetry and static perimetry. Visual evoked potentials were obtained by checkerboard Stimulation (pattern reversal stimulation on a TV-screen).
In literature VEP techniques are said to be superior to visual field examination in diagnosing lesions of the visual pathways in MS patients. This study shows that in these cases careful visual field examination may be at least as useful as the assessment of VEP. From our 29 patients (58 eyes) a visual field defect was found in 46 eyes, while a VEP latency delay was found in 32 eyes.
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Van Dalen, J.T.W., Spekreijse, H. (1981). Comparison of Visual Field Examination and Visual Evoked Cortical Potentials in Multiple Sclerosis Patients. In: Spekreijse, H., Apkarian, P.A. (eds) Visual Pathways. Documenta Ophthalmologica Proceedings Series, vol 27. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8656-5_14
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