Case 5-2006: An 11-year-old girl with loss of vision in the right eye

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 354, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 741-748

  Walton, David S ^a,b,c   Mukai, Shizuo ^b,c   Grabowski, Eric F ^a,c   Munzenrider, John E ^a,c   Dryja, Thaddeus P ^b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; EYE TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DISEASE; RETINOBLASTOMA; SCHOOL CHILD; SPECTACLES; VASCULAR DISEASE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; BLINDNESS; CHILD; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; EYE DISEASE; GENETICS; PATHOLOGY; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA TUMOR;

BLINDNESS; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EYE DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; RETINAL DETACHMENT; RETINAL NEOPLASMS; RETINOBLASTOMA;

EID: 32644455090     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc059041     Document Type: Article

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