Should patients with radiation-induced optic neuropathy receive any treatment?

Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 83-88

  Lee, Michael S ^a   Borruat, Francois Xavier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b HÔPITAL OPHTALMIQUE JULES GONIN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; CORTICOSTEROID; GADOLINIUM; RAMIPRIL; VASCULOTROPIN INHIBITOR; WARFARIN;

ANTICOAGULATION; ANXIETY; BAROTRAUMA; BLINDNESS; CARDIOTOXICITY; CATARACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRY EYE; EARDRUM PERFORATION; FENESTRATION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LUNG BAROTRAUMA; MEDICARE; MYOPIA; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; OPTIC NERVE SHEATH FENESTRATION; PACEMAKER FAILURE; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INDUCED OPTIC NEUROPATHY; RADIATION INJURY; REVIEW; SEIZURE; TRANSITIONAL BLINDNESS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; RADIATION INJURIES;

EID: 79952177208     PISSN: 10708022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNO.0b013e31820d5361     Document Type: Review

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