Protracted postsurgical blindness with visual recovery following optic nerve sheath fenestration

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 107-109

  Brodsky, Michael C ^a,b   Rettele, Garrick A ^a  

^a Arkansas Children's Hospital ^*

^b ARKANSAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN PSEUDOTUMOR; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FENESTRATION; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; NERVE INJURY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; BLINDNESS; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNDUS OCULI; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; OPTIC NERVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PSEUDOTUMOR CEREBRI; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0031884146     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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