title: [A new method to elicit pathological entoptic phenomenon from the retina--stenopeic flicker test].
abstract: Patients with central serous chorioretinopathy noticed that a part of the visual field became light for a few seconds when half of the visual field was covered in front of the eye. We devised a stenopeic flicker test (s-f test) to elicit this phenomenon continuously, and evaluated the clinical usefulness. We examined 17 eyes with central serous chorioretinopathy using the s-f test and Amsler grid test. Retinal abnormality was detected in 17 of 17 eyes with the s-f test and 14 of 17 eyes with the Amsler grid test. In detecting the extent of the retinal detachment on fluorescein angiograms, the s-f test (p < 0.0001, r = 0.842) was more precise than the Amsler grid test (p < 0.0003, r = 0.506). These results suggest that the s-f test is useful to detect retinal abnormality and to grasp the extest of the retinal detachment in central serous chorioretinopathy.
authors.affiliation: Iwate Prefectural Kitakami Hospital, Japan.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Iwami
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002825:Chorioretinitis / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008722:Methods; D008875:Middle Aged; D012163:Retinal Detachment / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014794:Visual Fields