Five things to know about...: Acute-onset floaters and flashes

CMAJ. Canadian Medical Association Journal

Volumn 184, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 431-

  Johnson, Davin ^a   Hollands, Hussein ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; BLINDNESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; EYE EXAMINATION; HUMAN; MIGRAINE WITH AURA; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREVALENCE; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA TEAR; SHORT SURVEY; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VITREOUS BODY DETACHMENT; VITREOUS FLOATERS; VITREOUS HEMORRHAGE; ACUTE DISEASE; REVIEW;

ACUTE DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; RETINAL DETACHMENT; VITREOUS DETACHMENT;

EID: 84860608279     PISSN: 08203946     EISSN: 14882329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.110686     Document Type: Article

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