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1Tennent Institute of Ophthalmology, Glasgow, UK.
Abstract:
The brightness-sense has been assessed for a cohort of individuals with optic nerve hypoplasia, and for a group of normal subjects. It was found to be significantly impaired in the worst eye as compared to the fellow eye in patients with asymmetrical bilateral optic nerve hypoplasia. No difference in brightness between the two eyes was perceived in two patients with segmental optic nerve hypoplasia. The brightness-sense comparison test has not hitherto been applied to patients with optic nerve hypoplasia. The test is simple to use and provides an additional investigative tool for the clinician to detect optic nerve dysfunction.
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