title: Electroretinography and visual evoked responses in paediatric practice.
abstract: Electroretinography an the recording of visual evoked responses are of considerable value as ancillary investigations in clinical ophthalmology, paediatric neurology an developmental paediatrics. The techniques used are non-invasive and yield objective results without any need for patient co-operation. In this study 159 children were examined using a system constructed from apparatus available in South Africa. Indications for the investigations included developmental delay, acute intracranial disease, eye disease and cerebral degenerative disorders. Information obtained made possible distinctions between retinal dysfunction and lesions of optic pathways, the occipital cortex and higher cortical centres.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004596:Electroretinography; D005074:Evoked Potentials, Visual; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D012160:Retina / Q000033:anatomy & histology