Retinal involvement in multiple sclerosis

Neurology

Volumn 69, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 1562-1563

  Waxman, Stephen G ^a   Black, Joel A ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMYELINATION; EDITORIAL; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE FIBER; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA NERVE CELL; WHITE MATTER; APOPTOSIS; MYELINATED NERVE; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA DEGENERATION;

APOPTOSIS; AXONS; HUMANS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 35848970061     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000295993.08468.f3     Document Type: Editorial

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