Delayed and pseudodelayed visual evoked potentials in optic neuritis compared with long time echo-short tau inversion recovery magnetic resonance imaging of optic nerve

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology - Evoked Potentials

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 275-286

  Onofrj, M ^a,b   Fulgente, T ^a   Thomas, A ^a   Gambi, D ^a   Melchionda, D ^a   Lopez, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b Ospedale Ex Pediatrico   (Italy)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance imaging; Multiple sclerosis; Optic neuritis; Visual evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEMYELINATION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030200116     PISSN: 01685597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0168-5597(96)95675-0     Document Type: Article

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