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Spontaneous Visual Phenomena with Visual Loss:104 Patients with Lesions of Retinal and Neural Afferent Pathways Neurol 40:444-447, Lepore,F.E., 1990 See this aricle in Pubmed Article Abstract Fifty-seven percent of 104 consecutive patients with retinal or neural visual loss reported spontaneous visual phenomena(SVP).Elementary SVP occurred more commonly(51%of patients)than complex SVP(21%).SVP occur with lesions of any portion of the visual pathways.Unlike irritative hallucinations,they do not aid in localization of the lesion.SVP occur significantly more frequently with visual acuity of 20/50 or less in both eyes.These purely visual hallucinations are unlikely to herald psychiatric disease and may be release phenomena stemming from loss in inhibitory visual input.

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