Optic nerve morphology may reveal adverse events during prenatal and perinatal life-digital image analysis

Survey of Ophthalmology

Volumn 44, Issue 2 SUPPL. 1, 1999, Pages

  Hellström, Ann ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Children; Digital image analysis; Fetal alcohol syndrome; Growth hormone insufficiency; Magnetic resonance imaging; Optic disk; Optic nerve hypoplasia; Periventricular leukomalacia; Retinal vessels

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0032763707     PISSN: 00396257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0039-6257(99)00067-3     Document Type: Review

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