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Electroretinographic Testing in Infants and Children

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Ever since Dewar [1] first recorded electrical potentials from the human eye in 1877, electroretinography (ERG) has held promise as an objective measure of retinal function. Over the intervening years, it has become possible to relate the components of full-field, focal, multifocal, and pattern ERGs to their cellular origins within the retina. Thus, each of these tests can provide specific information about retinal disease.

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Birch, D.G., Birch, E.E., Spencer, R. (2011). Electroretinographic Testing in Infants and Children. In: Reynolds, J., Olitsky, S. (eds) Pediatric Retina. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12041-1_3

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