Assessment of vision-related quality of life in patients with homonymous visual field defects

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 245, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1749-1758

  Papageorgiou, Eleni ^a   Hardiess, Gregor ^b   Schaeffel, Frank ^a   Wiethoelter, Horst ^c   Karnath, Hans Otto ^b   Mallot, Hanspeter ^b   Schoenfisch, Birgitt ^b   Schiefer, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c Klinikum Stuttgart Burgerhospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

Exploration; Homonymous hemianopia; Homonymous visual field defect; Qualityof life (QOL); Questionnaire; Vascular brain damage; Visual exploration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PERIMETRY; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFERENCE VALUE; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN INJURIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEMIANOPSIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 36348930373     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-007-0644-z     Document Type: Article

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