Medical Mystery: Cloud Surrounding the Optic Disks — The Answer  

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Randhawa, Sandeep (Editor); Lee, Andrew G.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The New England Journal of Medicine (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 358 no. 09 (Feb. 2008), page 970.

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Perpustakaan FK Nomor Panggil: N08.K.2008.01 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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The medical mystery in the January 3 issue1 involved fundus photographs (Figure 1) showing a yellow cloud surrounding the optic disks of a 42-year-old man. His visual acuity and the examination of the anterior segment of each eye were normal. The diagnosis is myelinated retinal nerve fibers, a developmental anomaly in which myelination appears beyond the lamina cribrosa or the optic nerve head, on the nerve fibers of the disk and retina. The myelinated fibers appear as striated white patches with feathery borders, caused by differential myelination of individual axons. Myelinated retinal nerve fibers occur in 1% of . . .

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