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  • Title: Gaze-evoked blindness.
    Author: Hampton GR, Krohel GB.
    Journal: Ann Ophthalmol; 1983 Jan; 15(1):73-6. PubMed ID: 6830098.
    Abstract:
    Three patients with orbital lesions had substantial visual loss while maintaining their eye in an eccentric position of gaze (gaze-evoked blindness). The acuity rapidly returned to baseline levels on return to primary position. Two patients had optic nerve sheath meningiomas and one a displaced portion of orbital bone in contact with the globe. Disc abnormalities and/or choroidal folds were present in all three cases. Gaze-evoked blindness is characterized by the presence of an intraconal mass lesion, but proptosis may be subtle or not present at all. Gaze-evoked blindness should be considered in the differential diagnosis of all patients with atypical amaurosis fugax.
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