Optic nerve hydropic axonal degeneration and blocked retrograde axoplasmic transport: Histopathologic features in human high-pressure secondary glaucoma

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 347-353

  Knox, David L ^a,c   Eagle Jr , Ralph C ^b   Green, William R ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WILLS EYE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AXOPLASM FLOW; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHOROID MELANOMA; CILIARY BODY TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; GLIA CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; NEOVASCULAR GLAUCOMA; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UVEA MELANOMA;

AXONAL TRANSPORT; AXONS; EYE ENUCLEATION; GLAUCOMA, ANGLE-CLOSURE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROGLIA; OPTIC ATROPHY; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UVEAL NEOPLASMS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 33947254402     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 00039950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.125.3.347     Document Type: Article

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