Pearls & Oy-sters: Spontaneous venous pulsation and its role in differentiating papilledema from pseudopapilledema

Neurology

Volumn 75, Issue 13, 2010, Pages

  Lascaratos, Gerassimos ^a   Ahmed, Suheb ^a   Madill, Stephen A ^a  

^a PRINCESS ALEXANDRA EYE PAVILION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLURRED VISION; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MIGRAINE WITH AURA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PAPILLEDEMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOPAPILLEDEMA; PULSE WAVE; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; VISUAL ACUITY; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; VISUAL FIELD;

FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAPILLEDEMA; RETINAL VESSELS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 77957956985     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181f4d851     Document Type: Article

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