Kearns-Sayre syndrome, abnormal corneal endothelium and normal tension glaucoma [4]

Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 543-545

  Zarnowski, Tomasz ^a   Jaksch, Michaela ^b   Rejdak, Robert ^a   Zagórski, Zbigniew ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

^b Metabolic Disease Center Munich Schwabing   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL ENZYME;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GLAUCOMA; GONIOSCOPY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART BLOCK; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; KEARNS SAYRE SYNDROME; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; MUSCLE BIOPSY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTOSIS; RETINA PIGMENT DEGENERATION; RISK FACTOR; SPECULAR MICROSCOPY; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; KEARNS-SAYER SYNDROME;

EID: 0142061603     PISSN: 13953907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0420.2003.00120.x     Document Type: Letter

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