The optic nerve head in hereditary optic neuropathies

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 277-287

  O'Neill, Evelyn C ^a   Mackey, David A ^b   Connell, Paul P ^a   Hewitt, Alex W ^a   Danesh Meyer, Helen V ^c   Crowston, Jonathan G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT OPTIC ATROPHY; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; GENE MUTATION; GLAUCOMA; HEREDITARY ATAXIA; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEBER HEREDITARY OPTIC NEUROPATHY; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC DISK ANOMALY; OPTIC DISK CUP; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; POLARIMETRY; POLYNEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL DISEASE; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA NERVE CELL; REVIEW; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; STORAGE DISEASE; WOLFRAM SYNDROME; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL FIELD;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 68349090521     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2009.40     Document Type: Review

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