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  • Courtesy of Damien Luviano, MD, FACS, and Dominik Thomas
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    Neuro-Ophthalmology/Orbit

    Visual field defect of right parietal lobe lesion. Visual field of patient with right parietal lobe insult affecting inferior, contralateral visual field quadrant of each eye. Parietal lobe lesions tend to affect superior fibers first, resulting in contralateral inferior homonymous quadrantanopia. In this case the lack of congruity tells us the lesion is not in the occipital brain.