Assessment of blood flow velocity in eyeball arteries in multiple sclerosis patients with past retrobulbar optic neuritis in color Doppler ultrasonography

Klinika Oczna

Volumn 109, Issue 4-6, 2007, Pages 183-186

  Modrzejewska, Monika ^a,b   Karczewicz, Danuta ^a   Wilk, Grazyna ^a  

^a POMERANIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b NONE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Colour Doppler ultrasound; Multiple sclerosis; Ocular blood flow; Retrobulbar neuritis

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447530273     PISSN: 00232157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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