Posterior vitreous detachment: How to approach sudden-onset floaters and flashing lights

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 37-42

  Margo, Curtis E ^a   Harman, Lynn E ^b,c,d  

^a Watson Clinic   (United States)

^b James Haley Veterans Hospital   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; IMAGERY; MIGRAINE; MULTIPLE EVANESCENT WHITE DOT SYNDROME; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROGNOSIS; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA TEAR; REVIEW; SYNDROME; VISUAL HALLUCINATION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUAL SYSTEM; VITREOUS BODY DETACHMENT; VITREOUS OPACITY; ACUTE DISEASE; BLINDNESS; HALLUCINATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ACUTE DISEASE; BLINDNESS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROGNOSIS; RETINAL DETACHMENT; RETINAL PERFORATIONS; VISION, ENTOPTIC; VITREOUS DETACHMENT;

EID: 15744369192     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.2005.03.1599     Document Type: Review

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