The visual fields: an interdisciplinary history II. neurosurgeons and quantitative perimetry. Academic Article

abstract

• When operations for brain tumours became possible, exact charting of visual field defects assumed great importance in diagnosis and in monitoring post-operative progress. This process, known as quantitative perimetry, was energetically practised and taught by Harvey Cushing and by many of his pupils. The advent of non-invasive methods of imaging the brain and the rise of neuro-ophthalmology as an independent discipline were associated with a decline in neurosurgical commitment to quantitative perimetry, but it remains an important branch of the clinical neurosciences.

authors

• Crompton, John

published proceedings

• J Clin Neurosci

author list (cited authors)

• Simpson, D. A., & Crompton, J. L.

citation count

• 1

complete list of authors

• Simpson, DA||Crompton, JL

publication date

• March 2008

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Journal of Clinical Neuroscience  Journal

keywords

• Brain Neoplasms
• History, 19th Century
• History, 20th Century
• Humans
• Neurosurgery
• Vision Disorders
• Visual Field Tests
• Visual Fields

PubMed Central ID

• 18178441

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.jocn.2007.09.017

start page

• 229

end page

• 236

volume

• 15

issue

• 3

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jocn.2007.09.017