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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 31.
Published in final edited form as: J Neurol Sci. 2016 May 13;367:26–31. doi: 10.1016/j.jns.2016.05.020

Table 3.

Performances in VOSP subtests, number of patients scoring under 5%ile pairwise and comparison between groups.

Patient groups tAD PCA1 PCA2 Pairwise comparison




PCA2 vs PCA1
PCA2 vs tAD
N 18 n (%) under 5%ile 16 n (%) under 5%ile 5 n (%) under 5%ile pa pa
Screening (figure-ground discrimination) 18.5 ± 2.4 10 (45%) 13.4 ± 6.4 10 (62%) 14.8 ± 5.4 4 (80%) 0.70 0.06
Incomplete letters 12.2 ± 6.7 11 (61%)   3.8 ± 5.8 14 (88%)   7.0 ± 6.9 4 (80%) 0.18 0.13b
Silhouettes 12.0 ± 6.4   6 (27%)   7.5 ± 5.8 15 (93%)   7.6 ± 7.9 4 (80%) 0.97b 0.20b
Dot counting   7.2 ± 3.6   2 (11%)   5.0 ± 3.7 10 (62%)   6.8 ± 4.3 2 (40%) 0.31 0.90
Position discrimination 14.3 ± 5.9   8 (44%) 10.1 ± 5.3 13 (81%)   9.8 ± 5.1 4 (80%) 0.77b 0.06
Number location   5.1 ± 4.1   8 (44%)   1.0 ± 1.3 16 (100%)   3.6 ± 4.1 3 (60%) 0.03b 0.44
Cube analysis   5.8 ± 3.8 10 (45%)   1.0 ± 1.3 16 (100%)   3.6 ± 4.5 3 (60%) 0.32 0.27b
% of patients failing at least 1 visual test 10 (55%) 16 (100%) 5 (100%)

Performances expressed in mean ± SD. Bold means statistically significant. Italics means trends towards significance.

a

Mann-Whitney U test (except indicated).

b

Unpaired t-test.