Absence of hypertensive retinopathy in a Turkish kindred with autosomal dominant hypertension and brachydactyly

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 82, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1363-1365

  Hattenbach, Lars Olof ^a,c   Toka, Hakan R ^b   Toka, Okan ^b   Schuster, Herbert ^b   Luft, Friedrich C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; BRACHYDACTYLY; CHROMOSOME 12P; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EYE FUNDUS; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTENSION RETINOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT STATURE; STROKE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

EID: 0031733009     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.82.12.1363     Document Type: Article

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