High incidence of visual recovery among four japanese patients with leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy with the 14484 mutation

Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 103-107

  Yamada, Keiko ^a   Mashima, Yukihiko ^a   Kigasawa, Kazuteru ^b   Miyashita, Kimio ^b   Wakakura, Masato ^c   Oguchi, Yoshihisa ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

14484 mitochondrial mutation; Alcohol; Idebenone; Leber s hereditary optic neuropathy; Visual recovery

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975492602     PISSN: 10708022     EISSN: 15365166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00041327-199706000-00007     Document Type: Article

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