Visual outcome of malignant hypertension in young people

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 401-403

  Browning, A C ^a   Mengher, L S ^a   Gregson, R M ^a   Amoaku, W M ^a  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blind; Malignant hypertension; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CASE REPORT; CHILD; EYE FUNDUS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MALIGNANT HYPERTENSION; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADOLESCENT; BLINDNESS; CHILD; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, MALIGNANT; MALE; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0035515912     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.85.5.401     Document Type: Article

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