Optic Nerve Aplasia in an Infant with Congenital Hypopituitarism and Posterior Pituitary Ectopia

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 125-126

  Brodsky, Michael C ^a,b   Atreides, Sean Paul A ^a   Fowlkes, John L ^a   Sundin, Olof H ^a  

^a Arkansas Children's Hospital ^*

^b ARKANSAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECTOPIC TISSUE; HUMAN; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; HYPOPITUITARISM; INFANT; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; NEUROHYPOPHYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NERVE APLASIA; OPTIC NERVE HYPOPLASIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; HUMANS; HYPOPITUITARISM; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OPTIC NERVE; PITUITARY GLAND, POSTERIOR; PITUITARY HORMONES; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0346724523     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.122.1.125     Document Type: Article

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