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Neuro‐ophthalmic considerations and investigations
Author(s) -
Kawasaki A.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
acta ophthalmologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.534
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1755-3768
pISSN - 1755-375X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-3768.2015.0025
Subject(s) - malingering , occult , medicine , function (biology) , psychology , intensive care medicine , psychiatry , pathology , alternative medicine , evolutionary biology , biology
Summary Unexplained visual loss is a challenging clinical situation. It is important to distinguish underlying occult pathology from visual loss without organic basis. Even trickier are patients in whom concurrent organic disease does exist but the degree of visual dysfunction is exaggerated, leading to the false notion of malingering. This lecture examines some objectives techniques for discerning visual function in the patient with medically unexplained visual loss.