Functional MRI as a tool for assessing chiasmal visual defect in a patient with neuromyelitis optica

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 81, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1174-1175

  Raz, Noa ^a   Vaknin, A ^a   Chokron, S ^b   Ben Hur, T ^a   Levin, N ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b Service de Neurologie   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; PREDNISONE; STEROID;

ADULT; BITEMPORAL HEMIANOPIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; LETTER; MYELITIS; MYELOOPTIC NEUROPATHY; OPTIC CHIASM; PERIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEMIANOPSIA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROMYELITIS OPTICA; OPTIC CHIASM;

EID: 77958142725     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2009.183749     Document Type: Letter

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