VEP Testing and Visual Pathway Gliomas: Not Quite Ready for Prime Time

Journal of AAPOS

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 293-295

  Siatkowski, R Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; VINCRISTINE;

AMBLYOPIA; BRAIN STEM; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EDITORIAL; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; OPTIC NERVE GLIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME; UNITED STATES; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMANS; OPTIC NERVE GLIOMA; OPTIC NERVE NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 33747750560     PISSN: 10918531     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaapos.2006.06.002     Document Type: Editorial

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