Optic nerve elongation: Does it exist?

Skull Base

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 171-180

  Alvi, Aijaz ^a   Janecka, Ivo P ^b   Kapadia, Silloo ^c   Johnson, Bruce L ^c   McVay, William ^c  

^a ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^b Longwood Skull Base Program   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; EMBRYOLOGY; EXOPHTHALMOS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE MALFORMATION; OPTIC NERVE; ORBIT TUMOR; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SKULL BASE TUMOR;

EID: 0029801604     PISSN: 15315010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1058642     Document Type: Article

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