Can Screening for Optic Nerve Gliomas in Patients With Neurofibromatosis Type I Be Performed With Visual-Evoked Potential Testing?

Journal of AAPOS

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 307-311

  Wolsey, Darcy H ^a   Larson, Scott A ^a   Creel, Donnel ^a   Hoffman, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTIC NERVE GLIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS 1; OPTIC NERVE GLIOMA; OPTIC NERVE NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 33747751280     PISSN: 10918531     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaapos.2006.02.004     Document Type: Article

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