Retinal nerve fiber hypertrophy in ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay patients

Molecular Vision

Volumn 17, Issue , 2011, Pages 1871-1876

  Pablo, Luis E ^a,b   Garcia Martin, Elena ^a,b   Gazulla, Jose ^a   Larrosa, Jose M ^a,b   Ferreras, Antonio ^a,b   Santorelli, Filippo M ^c   Benavente, Isabel ^d   Vela, Ana ^a   Marin, Miguel A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MIGUEL SERVET   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO ARAGONÉS DE CIENCIAS DE LA SALUD   (Spain)

^c DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Italy)

^d HOSPITAL SAN JORGE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE SPASTIC ATAXIA OF CHARLEVOIX SAGUENAY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OPTIC DISK; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DISEASE; RETINAL NERVE FIBER HYPERTROPHY; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GONIOSCOPY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; OBSERVATION; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; RETINA; SPINOCEREBELLAR ATAXIAS; TOMOGRAPHY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD TESTS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 79960728487     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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