Walsh & Hoyt: Topical Diagnosis of Lesions of the Optic Radiation

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Title Walsh & Hoyt: Topical Diagnosis of Lesions of the Optic Radiation
Creator Leonard A. Levin, MD, PhD
Affiliation Chair of Ophthalmology, McGill University
Subject Optic Nerve Diseases; Chiasmal Disorders; Retrochiasmal Disorders; Optic Radiation, Topical Diagnosis
Description Efferent projection fibers from and afferent projection fibers to the cerebral cortex traverse the subcortical white matter, where they form a radiating mass of fibers, the corona radiata, which converges toward the brain stem. In the rostral brain stem, the fibers form a broad but compact fiber band, the internal capsule, that is bordered medially by the thalamus and caudate nucleus and laterally by the lenticular nucleus. The afferent fibers make up the thalamocortical radiation in the internal capsule. The efferent fiber bundles include (a) the corticospinal and corticobulbar tracts; (b) the frontopontine tract from the prefrontal and precentral regions of the cerebral cortex; (c) the temporoparietopontine tract from the temporal and parietal lobes; and (d) the optic radiation, which begins in the lateral geniculate body and occupies only a small region of the capsule, since it does not proceed to the brain stem. The internal capsule is thus composed of all fibers, afferent and efferent, that go to, or come from, the cerebral cortex. Lesions of the internal capsule. Lesions of the temporal lobe. Lesions of the parietal lobe.
Date 2005
Language eng
Format application/pdf
Type Text
Source Walsh and Hoyt's Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology, 6th Edition
Relation is Part of Walsh and Hoyt's Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology Walsh and Hoyt's Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology
Collection Neuro-ophthalmology Virtual Education Library: NOVEL http://NOVEL.utah.edu
Publisher Wolters Kluwer Health, Philadelphia
Holding Institution Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah, 10 N 1900 E SLC, UT 84112-5890
Rights Management Copyright 2005. For further information regarding the rights to this collection, please visit: https://NOVEL.utah.edu/about/copyright
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