title: [Value of visual evoked potentials (VEP) in compression of the anterior visual pathway, especially in the area of the chiasm].
abstract: We investigated 86 patients by pattern half-field stimulation presenting clinically with temporal field-defects or with a mass causing compression of the visual pathways found by C.T.-scanning. Pattern half-field stimulation proved to be a very sensitive method for detecting a compression of the anterior visual pathways. In 65 cases the results of perimetry and VEP were congruent, 6 times the evoked potential was pathologic the perimetry showing no abnormalities, only 1 false negative VEP was observed. Thus we stress the importance of an investigation by VEP including half-field stimulation in all patients with suspected compression of the anterior visual pathways.
mesh_terms: D005074:Evoked Potentials, Visual; D006801:Humans; D009408:Nerve Compression Syndromes / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D009897:Optic Chiasm / Q000503:physiopathology; D009901:Optic Nerve Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology
vernacular_title: Die Wertigkeit der visuell evozierten Potentiale (VEP) bei Kompression der vorderen Sehbahn, speziell in der Chiasmaregion.