THE FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION OF EARLIEST GLAUCOMATOUS VISUAL FIELD DEFECTS DOCUMENTED BY AUTOMATIC PERIMETRY

2500-3000 eyes with ocular hypertension, with or without established glaucoma in the fellow eye, were followed with automatic perimetry for several years. Forty-five eyes showed a documented change from repeated normal fields to reproducible glaucomatous visual field loss. The location of the defective points in the first pathological field of each eye was registered. The resulting frequency distribution is shown and...