Associations between retinal nerve fiber layer abnormalities and optic nerve examination

Neurology

Volumn 75, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 1318-1325

  Cettomai, D ^a   Hiremath, G ^a   Ratchford, J ^a   Venkatesan, A ^a   Greenberg, B M ^a   McGready, J ^b   Pardo, C A ^a   Kerr, D A ^a   Frohman, E ^c   Balcer, L J ^d   McArthur, J C ^a   Calabresi, P A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFERENT PUPILLARY DEFECT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROOPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PALLOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DISEASE; RETINA NERVE FIBER LAYER ABNORMALITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77958545918     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181f735bd     Document Type: Article

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