Melanocytoma of the optic nerve associated with sound-induced phosphenes

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 273-277

  Kim, Ivana K ^a   Dryja, Thaddeus P ^b   Lessell, Simmons ^b   Gragoudas, Evangelos S ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLURRED VISION; CASE REPORT; ECHOGRAPHY; EYE DISEASE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MELANOCYTOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; BRAIN; EYE ENUCLEATION; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE NEOPLASMS; PERIMETRY; PHOSPHENES; SOUND; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 32644483511     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.124.2.273     Document Type: Article

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