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Phantom Vision

This name has been given to visual hallucinations following eye enucleation, by analogy with somesthetic sensation experienced in a phantom limb after amputation. Similar phenomena may occur after acute visual loss, and may overlap with phantom chromatopsia. Unformed or simple hallucinations are more common than formed or complex hallucinations.

References

Cohn R. Phantom vision. Archives of Neurology 1971; 25: 468-471 Lepore FE. Spontaneous visual phenomena with visual loss. Neurology 1990; 40: 444-447