Disturbed visual system function in methionine synthase deficiency

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 243, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 497-500

  Poloschek, Charlotte M ^a   Fowler, Brian ^b   Unsold, Renate ^c   Lorenz, Birgit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c Neuroophthalmological Consultation Office   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMOCYSTEINE; METHIONINE SYNTHASE;

AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIVERGENT STRABISMUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FOLLOW UP; GROWTH RETARDATION; HOMOCYSTINURIA; HUMAN; MALE; MYOPIA; NEWBORN; NYSTAGMUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOSCOPY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

5-METHYLTETRAHYDROFOLATE-HOMOCYSTEINE S-METHYLTRANSFERASE; CONES (RETINA); ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RETINAL DISEASES; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RODS (RETINA); VISION DISORDERS; VITAMIN B 12;

EID: 20444483337     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-004-1044-2     Document Type: Article

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