Misrouting of the optic nerves in albinism: Estimation of the extent with visual evoked potentials

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 3892-3898

  Hoffmann, Michael B ^a   Lorenz, Birgit ^c   Morland, Antony B ^d   Schmidtborn, Linda C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MAGDEBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALBINISM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROOCULOGRAM; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISUAL STIMULATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBER; OCULAR ALBINISM; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; AGED; ALBINISM, OCULAR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 32944460376     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.05-0491     Document Type: Article

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