Radiation-induced optic neuropathy: Still no treatment

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 233-235

  Miller, Neil R ^a  

^a NONE

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DEMYELINATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSIMETRY; EDITORIAL; GLIOMA; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; INTRAOCULAR TUMOR; MENINGIOMA; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NERVE COMPRESSION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PARANASAL SINUS CANCER; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION NECROSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKULL BASE TUMOR; TUMOR RECURRENCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; BRAIN TUMOR; NOTE; OPTIC NERVE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOTHERAPY;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 3142520103     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2004.00809.x     Document Type: Editorial

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