Infarction of the occipital pole causes homonymous hemianopia, and release hallucinations occasionally occur in the region of the field defect.1,2
A 64-year-old woman developed acute right homonymous hemianopia with vivid hallucinations in the right visual field. She drew what she experienced, including colored pinwheels and lines at right angles (figure, A). Because light exacerbated the positive phenomena, she constructed a cardboard mask on her eyeglasses to minimize light entering her right …
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