Detection and treatment of optic nerve sheath meningioma

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 367-375

  Moster, Mark L ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; HYDROXYUREA; MIFEPRISTONE; PROGESTERONE; TAMOXIFEN;

CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EXOPHTHALMOS; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; HUMAN; MENINGIOMA; NERVE SHEATH TUMOR; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NERVE; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PATHOGENESIS; RADIOTHERAPY; REVIEW; STEREOTAXIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; VISION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 26444497534     PISSN: 15284042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-005-0060-x     Document Type: Review

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