Optic nerve hyperintensity on T2-weighted images among patients with pituitary macroadenoma: Correlation with visual impairment

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 250-254

  Tokumaru, Aya M ^a   Sakata, I ^b   Terada, H ^d   Kosuda, S ^b   Nawashiro, H ^b   Yoshii, M ^c  

^a Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital and Institute of Gerontology   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL REHABILITATION CENTER FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES   (Japan)

^d TOHO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RESEARCH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC CHIASM; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE HYPERINTENSITY; OPTIC NERVE LESION; PATHOLOGY; PITUITARY MACROADENOMA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE COMPRESSION; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PAPILLEDEMA; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL FIELD;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; OPTIC CHIASM; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; PAPILLEDEMA; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 33645732982     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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