Bilateral macular retinitis as the presenting feature of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis

Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 288-291

  Babu, Rajesh B ^a   Biswas, Jyotirmay ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; INTERFERON; MEASLES ANTIBODY; METHISOPRINOL; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; SEDATIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HERPES SIMPLEX ENCEPHALITIS; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MALE; MEASLES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC DISK ANOMALY; PARESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; RETINITIS; SUBACUTE SCLEROSING PANENCEPHALITIS; TREMOR; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RETINITIS; SSPE VIRUS; SUBACUTE SCLEROSING PANENCEPHALITIS;

EID: 37349066463     PISSN: 10708022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNO.0b013e31815b98e6     Document Type: Article

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