Late onset of Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy precipitated by anaemia [4]

Eye

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1017-1018

  Goyal, S ^a   Riordan Eva, P ^a   Coakes, R L ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DORZOLAMIDE; HEMOGLOBIN; LATANOPROST; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; TIMOLOL;

AGED; ANEMIA; ARGON PLASMA COAGULATION; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL SCOTOMA; DNA DETERMINATION; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; LEBER HEREDITARY OPTIC NEUROPATHY; LETTER; MALE; OPTIC DISK; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERIMETRY; POINT MUTATION; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISORDER;

EID: 7244248671     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.eye.6701388     Document Type: Letter

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