Retinal imaging by laser polarimetry and optical coherence tomography evidence of axonal degeneration in multiple sclerosis

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 65, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 924-928

  Zaveri, Maulik S ^a   Conger, Amy ^b   Salter, Amber ^b   Frohman, Teresa C ^b   Galetta, Steven L ^a   Markowitz, Clyde E ^a   Jacobs, Dina A ^a   Cutter, Gary R ^c   Ying, Gui Shuang ^a   Maguire, Maureen G ^a   Calabresi, Peter A ^d   Balcer, Laura J ^a,e   Frohman, Elliot M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

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

^e Department of Neurology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORNEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NEUROPROTECTION; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NEURITIS; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; POLARIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA EXAMINATION; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; AXONS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASERS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBERS; OPTIC DISK; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 47549097201     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.65.7.924     Document Type: Article

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