Patterns of retinal damage facilitate differential diagnosis between Susac syndrome and MS

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Brandt, Alexander U ^a   Zimmermann, Hanna ^a   Kaufhold, Falko ^a   Promesberger, Julia ^b   Schippling, Sven ^c   Finis, David ^d   Aktas, Orhan ^d   Geis, Christian ^e   Ringelstein, Marius ^d   Ringelstein, E Bernd ^b   Hartung, Hans Peter ^d   Paul, Friedemann ^a   Kleffner, Ilka ^b   Dörr, Jan ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^d HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OPTIC NEURITIS; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETINA INJURY; RETINA NERVE CELL; RETINA NERVE FIBER LAYER THICKNESS; SUSAC SYNDROME; THICKNESS; VISUAL DISORDER; AGE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GERMANY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RETINA; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GERMANY; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; RETINA; SEX FACTORS; SUSAC SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84862236019     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038741     Document Type: Article

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