Correspondence to Dr W. F. Hoyt, c/o The Editorial Office, Department of Neurological Surgery, 350 Parnassus Avenue, Suite 807, San Francisco, California 94143. USA. dioptre spherical lenses. Both her colour vision and her pupillary reactions to direct light stimulation were normal. An examination of the visual fields revealed symmetrical, absolute, steep-edged, wedge-shaped defects that broke ...

Acute macular neuroretinopathy is an infrequently encountered condition in which there is a sudden mild central vision loss, photopsia and red-brown wedge-shaped lesions in the macular region with corresponding scotomata in the central visual fields. The condition may be associated with the use of oral contraceptives or with a recent febrile illness. It is self-limiting and non-recurrent. The c...