Pursuit-paretic and epileptic nystagmus in MELAS

Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 135-138

  Choi, Seo Young ^a   Kim, Yeonjung ^b   Oh, Sea Won ^a   Jeong, Seong Hae ^c   Kim, Ji Soo ^a  

^a Seoul National University Bundang Hospital   (South Korea)

^b University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c Chungnam National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; GENE MUTATION; HOMONYMOUS HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; MALE; MELAS SYNDROME; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NYSTAGMUS; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SMOOTH PURSUIT EYE MOVEMENT; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EYE MOVEMENTS; HEMIANOPSIA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MELAS SYNDROME; NYSTAGMUS, PATHOLOGIC; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 84862807643     PISSN: 10708022     EISSN: 15365166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNO.0b013e31824d2a15     Document Type: Article

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