A case of lesion of the optic thalamus with autopsy / by Gordon Holmes and Henry Head.

  • Holmes, Sir Gordon Morgan, 1876-1965.
Date:
1912
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Credit: A case of lesion of the optic thalamus with autopsy / by Gordon Holmes and Henry Head. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    portion of the pulvinar, but its lateral angle projects into the lamina medullaris externa immediately dorsal to the crus. At this level the mesial fillet, as it bends dorsolateralwards into the thalamus, lies immediately ventral to the lesion, but is not here directly involved by it. It appears, however, poorly stained and atrophied. There is also slight rarefaction in the outer third of the pes, but this is otherwise normal. Fig. 2. The lesion occupies the same relative position in the succeeding sections but becomes larger. In a section through the ganglion habenulae and the corpora mammalaria (figs. 2 and 3), its main portion lies ventral to the anterior end of the pulvinar and extends mesialwards to about the plane of the lamina medullaris interna, and ventralwards into the ventral nucleus. Its lateral portion at first projects almost