Patterns of Retinal Damage Facilitate Differential Diagnosis between Susac Syndrome and MS
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Patterns of Retinal Damage Facilitate Differential Diagnosis between Susac Syndrome and MS
Susac syndrome, a rare but probably underdiagnosed combination of encephalopathy, hearing loss, and visual deficits due to branch retinal artery occlusion of unknown aetiology has to be considered as differential diagnosis in various conditions. Particularly, differentiation from multiple sclerosis is often challenging since both clinical presentation and diagnostic findings may overlap. Optica...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS ONE
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038741