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Quarter visual field cut
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Anopia refers to a loss of the visual field. Quadrant indicates “quarter.” Accordingly, quadrantanopia is a visual disorder involving loss of one quarter of the visual field.
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Visual disorders that involve loss of a particular spatial region, with sparing of the remainder of the visual field, tend to provide strong localizing information regarding the location of the cortical damage. Unilateral cortical lesions involving the occipital lobe will usually produce a hemi-field cut contralateral to the site of the lesions. Large lateralized lesions caused by posterior cerebral artery stroke often result in homonymous hemianopsia, with the entire hemi-field being lost. However, with smaller lesions, more circumscribed field cuts occur (i.e., partial hemianopsia). With inferior parietal lesions, quadrantanopia involves the lower quadrants of the field, with the side of the quadrant loss depending on the laterality of the lesion....
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Cohen, R.A. (2018). Quadrantanopia. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57111-9_1395
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