Immediate shrinkage of optociliary shunt vessels after fractionated external beam radiation for meningioma of the optic nerve sheath

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1360-1362

  De Alba Campomanes, A G ^a   Larson, D A ^b   Horton, Jonathan C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MENINGIOMA; NERVE COMPRESSION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OCULAR BLOOD VESSEL; OPTIC CHIASM; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE TUMOR; RADIATION DOSE; TUMOR VOLUME; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

CAPILLARIES; CHOROID; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; OPTIC NERVE NEOPLASMS; PERIMETRY; RETINAL VEIN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 49749093419     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A1063     Document Type: Article

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