Occipital lobe dysfunction revealed by functional brain imaging in a patient with traumatic visual field loss

Neuro-Ophthalmology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 127-132

  Miki, Atsushi ^a,c   Nakajima, Takashi ^b   Abe, Haruki ^a   Liu, Grant T ^c  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b National Saigata Medical Center   (Japan)

^c HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Homonymous hemianopia; Single photon emission computed tomography; Traumatic brain injury; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HOMONYMOUS HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 0033383937     PISSN: 01658107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/noph.22.2.127.3735     Document Type: Article

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