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John W. Henderson, M.D.; C. Wilbur Rucker, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1940;24(4):800-802.

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Bitemporal hemianopia is an infrequent result of injury to the head. Østerberg,¹ in reviewing the 30 such cases in the literature and 2 of his own, found in most of them certain common features : Blunt violence applied to the front of the skull caused a relatively slight fracture that did not extend to the region of the sella turcica but caused a rupture of the skull cap; the patients were comparatively young men of about 30 years whose skull bones consequently were rather plastic.

The following case supports Østerberg's impressions.

REPORT OF A CASE

A man aged 37 entered the Mayo Clinic on Oct. 31, 1939 complaining of limited fields of vision and of nonunion of a fracture of the left hip. He related that on March 14, 1938, while driving an automobile he had had a head-on collision with a truck. After this accident he had been unconscious . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Fellow in Ophthalmology, the Mayo Foundation; ROCHESTER, MINN.

From the Section on Ophthalmology, the Mayo Clinic (Dr. Rucker).

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