@article{ref1,
title="Loss of contrast sensitivity following contusional eye injury",
journal="British journal of ophthalmology",
year="1980",
author="Canavan, Y. and Archer, D. B.",
volume="64",
number="8",
pages="613-617",
abstract="Contrast sensitivity was evaluated in 95 patients who regained a visual acuity of 6/6 following a contusional injury of one eye. The injuries occurred 2 to 12 years prior to examination. A book of printed sinusoidal grating patterns of varying contrasts and spatial frequencies was used, and 15 patients were found to have a significant difference in contrast sensitivity between injured and uninjured eye. Eight patients had abnormalities of the media or fundus, and in 2 patients amblyopia was probably a factor. Five patients had a defect in contrast sensitivity in their injured eye, although no structural abnormalities could be detected on full clinical examination. Alterations in contrast sensitivity appeared to be a sensitive indicator of functional abnormality in eyes which appeared normal on ophthalmoscopy and other clinical investigations.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0007-1161",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}