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Can you tell me about the visual field test?
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It is a: Commonly performed test to measure the amount of vision present in the peripheral visual field. It is used to measure vision lost from a number of diseases including glaucoma, strokes, pseudotumor cerebri, and many others.
Answered 1/16/2014
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Benign and painless: In this test you will sit looking at a dome on which lids are arrayed or a light is projected Your identification is by a signal button and the mapping of what you saw is produced as a clue to changes in glaucoma, or to the nervous system.
Answered 1/11/2015
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