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Visual field changes following anterior temporal lobectomy: their significance in relation to "Meyer's loop" of the optic radiation. By Murray A. Falconer and John L. Wilson (From the Guy's-Maudsley Neurosurgical Unit, London). Brain 1958; 81: 114 and The architecture of the optic radiation in the temporal lobe of man. By J. M. van Buren and M. Baldwin (From the Branch of Surgical Neurology, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare). Brain 1958; 81: 1540.
In his paper on field defects produced by temporal lobe lesions (H. Cushing, Distortions of the visual fields in cases of brain tumour: the field defects produced by temporal lobe lesions. Brain 1922; 44: 37196), Harvey Cushing recalls the occasion at Johns Hopkins Hospital in October 1910 when a patient with epilepsy resulting from gunshot injury, in which the ball had penetrated
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