Heterogeneous Pattern of Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer in Multiple Sclerosis. High Resolution Optical Coherence Tomography: Potential and Limitations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Serbecic, Nermin ^a   Aboul Enein, Fahmy ^b   Beutelspacher, Sven C ^c   Graf, Martin ^b   Kircher, Karl ^a   Geitzenauer, Wolfgang ^a   Brannath, Werner ^a   Lang, Priska ^a   Kristoferitsch, Wolfgang ^b   Lassmann, Hans ^a   Reitner, Andreas ^a   Schmidt Erfurth, Ursula ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b SMZ Ost Donauspital ^*  (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; OPTIC NEURITIS; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETINA NERVE CELL; VISUAL ACUITY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBER; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; AGED; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE FIBERS; OPTIC NEURITIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL FIELD TESTS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78249290527     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013877     Document Type: Article

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