Visual evoked potentials in patients with Graves' ophthalmopathy complicated by ocular hypertension and suspect glaucoma or dysthyroid optic neuropathy

Documenta Ophthalmologica

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 99-104

  Ambrosio, Gennaro ^a   Ferrara, Giuseppe ^a   Vitale, Raffaella ^a   De Marco, Rocco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dysthyroid optic neuropathy; Graves' ophthalmopathy; Ocular hypertension; Visual evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOCRINE OPHTHALMOPATHY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; GLAUCOMA; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LATENT PERIOD; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MIDDLE AGED; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0037347392     PISSN: 00124486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022561530782     Document Type: Article

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