Juxtaposed Homonymous Hemianopsia Due to Neurotuberculosis

Lorena Wheelock-Gutierrez1, Shruthi Harish Bindiganavile, Patricia Chévez-Barrios

  • 1Asociación para Evitar la Ceguera en México (LW-G), Hospital "Luis Sánchez Búlnes", Mexico City, Mexico; Department of Ophthalmology (LW-G, SHB, PC-B, NB, AGL), Blanton Eye Institute, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas; Department of Pathology and Genomic Medicine (PC-B), Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (PC-B), Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York; Department of Ophthalmology (PC-B, AGL), Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York; Department of Ophthalmology (PC-B, AGL), Baylor College of Medicine. Houston, Texas; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (PC-B, GNF), The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas; The Houston Methodist Research Institute (AGL), Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas; Department of Ophthalmology (AGL), The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas; and Department of Ophthalmology (AGL), The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa.

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