title: [Clinical electro-ophthalmology at the Max Planck Institute of the Frankfurt University Ophthalmology Clinic 1970-1991].
abstract: The survey shows the frequency and distribution of diseases evaluated by electroophthalmological methods. Patients with retinal diseases (51.2%) and those with diseases of the optic nerve (21.8%) were examined most frequently. In a high percentage these investigations lead to a clinically useful assessment: described as confirmation or exclusion of a clinical diagnosis, as establishing a possible differential diagnosis or clearing up formerly unknown aspects of a disease. In cases of hereditary retinal disorders only 11% remained unclear, with presumed optic neuritis only 6%. The importance of electroophthalmological investigations is there ability to assess functional deficits in the visual system especially in somehow more rare retinal and centrally located disorders, functional deficits of unknown origins or in general diseases including the visual system.
authors.affiliation: W. G. Kerckhoff-Institut, Bad Nauheim.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lorenz
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Baier
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Eckl
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Raile
mesh_terms: D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004585:Electrooculography / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004596:Electroretinography / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005074:Evoked Potentials, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D005544:Forecasting; D005858:Germany / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D009901:Optic Nerve Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012164:Retinal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*
vernacular_title: Klinische Elektroophthalmologie des Max-Planck-Instituts in der Universitäts-Augenklinik Frankfurt 1970-1991.