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Gudden's inferior commissure

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The commissural fibres of the optic tract, lying above and behind the optic chiasm.

Bibliography

    Gudden's Commissure and tract:
  • Experimentaluntersuchungen über das peripherische und centrale Nervensystem.
    Archiv für Psychiatrie und Nervenkrankheiten, Berlin, 1870; 2: 693-723.
  • Ueber die Kreuzung der Fasern in Chiasma nervorum optici.
    [Albrecht von Grafes]Archiv für Ophthalmologie, Berlin, 1874, 2 Abth., 20: 249-268.
    [Albrecht von Grafes]Archiv für Ophthalmologie, Berlin, 1879, 1 Abth., 25, 1-56.

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