Bilateral Optic Neuritis Complicating Rabies Vaccination

Retina

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 179-181

  Gupta, Vishali ^a   Bandyopadhyay, Supratik ^a   Bapuraj, J R ^a   Gupta, Amod ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PREDNISONE; RABIES VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENCEPHALITIS; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; EYE PAIN; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MALE; MYELITIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PAPILLEDEMA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RABIES; SLIT LAMP; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADOLESCENT; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OPTIC NEURITIS; PAPILLEDEMA; PERIMETRY; PREDNISOLONE; RABIES VACCINES; VACCINATION; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 1242297007     PISSN: 0275004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006982-200402000-00033     Document Type: Article

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