Clinical Reasoning: A 42-year-old man with sequential monocular visual loss

Neurology

Volumn 71, Issue 17, 2008, Pages

  Prasad, S ^a   Moss, H E ^a   Lee, E B ^a   Glisson, C C ^b   Galetta, S L ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b East Lansing   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; FAMILY HISTORY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MONOCULAR VISION; MONOCULAR VISUAL LOSS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; OPTIC NERVE GLIOMA; OPTIC NEURITIS; PATIENT INFORMATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON THERAPY; SARCOIDOSIS; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; BLINDNESS; DRUG COMBINATION; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; BLINDNESS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; OPTIC NEURITIS; PREDNISONE;

EID: 55449125841     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000327690.66003.0a     Document Type: Article

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