A unique manifestation of pupillary fatigue in autoimmune autonomic ganglionopathy

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 644-648

  Muppidi, Srikanth ^a   Scribner, Maggie ^a   Gibbons, Christopher H ^c   Adams Huet, Beverley ^b   Spaeth, Elaine B ^a   Vernino, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE AUTONOMIC GANGLIONOPATHY; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIGHT; MALE; MYDRIASIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL DISEASE; PUPIL REFLEX; PUPILLARY FATIGUE; PUPILLOMETRY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTIBODIES; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GANGLIA, AUTONOMIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PUPIL DISORDERS; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; REFLEX, PUPILLARY;

EID: 84860901299     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneurol.2011.2143     Document Type: Article

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