Retinal arterial but not venous tortuosity correlates with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy severity

Journal of AAPOS

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 240-243

  Longmuir, Susannah Q ^a   Mathews, Katherine D ^a   Longmuir, Reid A ^a,b   Joshi, Vinayak ^a   Olson, Richard J ^a   Abrmoff, Michael D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FACIOSCAPULOHUMERAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RETINA ARTERY; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA IMAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHOULDER GIRDLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHILD; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, FACIOSCAPULOHUMERAL; RETINAL ARTERY; RETINAL VEIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955321059     PISSN: 10918531     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaapos.2010.03.006     Document Type: Article

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