A clinical case study of a Wolfram syndrome-affected family: Pattern-reversal visual evoked potentials and electroretinography analysis

Documenta Ophthalmologica

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 133-141

  Langwińska Wośko, Ewa ^a   Broniek Kowalik, Karina ^a   Szulborski, Kamil ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Diabetes insipidus; Diabetes mellitus; DIDMOAD; Electroretinogram; Electroretinography; ERG; Optic atrophy; Sensorineural hearing loss; VEP; VEP morphology; Visual evoked potentials; WFS1; Wolfram syndrome; WS

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NIGHT VISION; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; PATTERN REVERSAL VISUAL EVOKED POTENTIAL; PHOTOPIC VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD; WFS1 GENE; WOLFRAM SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE; VISUAL ACUITY; WOLFRAM SYNDROME;

EID: 84860319299     PISSN: 00124486     EISSN: 15732622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10633-011-9308-8     Document Type: Article

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