Differential diagnosis of optic neuropathy in patients with CNS diseases and normal tension glaucoma

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The article presents specific ophthalmologic signs of a certain condition of the central nervous system with clinical picture resembling that of normal tension glaucoma, and their differential diagnosis based on those signs.

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Natalia K. Serova

Burdenko Neurosurgery Institute

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Email: nserova@nsi.ru

MD, Professor, Chief of the Department of Ophthalmology

Russian Federation, Moscow

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