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Case Report

Retrogeniculate Lesion of the Visual Pathways: Retinal Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography Shows Evidence of Transsynaptic Retrograde Degeneration

Francesco PellegriniDepartment of Ophthalmology, De Gironcoli Hospital, Conegliano, Treviso, ItalyCorrespondence[email protected]
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Emanuela InterlandiDepartment of Ophthalmology, De Gironcoli Hospital, Conegliano, Treviso, Italy
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Francesco PichiEye Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE;Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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Andrew G. LeeBlanton Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA;Department of Ophthalmology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA;Departments of Ophthalmology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York City, New York, USA;Department of Ophthalmology, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA;Department of Ophthalmology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA;Department of Ophthalmology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Pages 114-117 | Received 25 Mar 2019, Accepted 08 May 2019, Published online: 12 Jul 2019

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