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  • Title: Visual evoked potentials in chiasmal gliomas in four adults.
    Author: Kupersmith MJ, Siegel IM, Carr RE, Ransohoff J, Flamm E, Shakin E.
    Journal: Arch Neurol; 1981 Jun; 38(6):362-5. PubMed ID: 7236065.
    Abstract:
    Visual evoked potentials (VEPs) were recorded from four patients with surgically verified chiasmal gliomas. Despite good visual acuity, 6/12(20/40) or better in each eye, these patients showed substantially reduced VEP amplitudes to a diffuse flash stimulus and hardly detectable responses to a highly textured checkerboard-pattern stimulus. The dissociation between evoked electrical activity and visual acuity is noteworthy; this differs from previously reported findings in patients with extrinsic compressing lesions of the chiasm or with lesions of demyelinating disease, which usually reduce VEP amplitude and increase conduction time in rough proportion to a loss of visual acuity.
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