Acute and bilateral blindness due to optic neuropathy associated with copper deficiency

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1025-1027

  Naismith, Robert T ^a   Shepherd, James B ^b   Weihl, Conrad C ^a   Tutlam, Nhial T ^a   Cross, Anne H ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CASE REPORT; COPPER DEFICIENCY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD DISEASE;

ANEMIA; BLINDNESS; COPPER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; GASTRIC BYPASS; HUMANS; LEUKOPLAKIA, ORAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 68549135352     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneurol.2009.70     Document Type: Article

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