Transient smartphone blindness: Relevance to misdiagnosis in neurologic practice
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- Received August 17, 2016
- Accepted in final form November 7, 2016
- First Published January 18, 2017.
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- Saraniya Sathiamoorthi, BS and
- Dean M. Wingerchuk, MD, FRCP(C)
- Saraniya Sathiamoorthi, BS and
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- Dean M. Wingerchuk, MD, FRCP(C)
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(1) The Neurologist, Co-Editor-in-Chief, 2014-present, (2) Current Medical Research and Opinion, Editorial Advisory Board member, 2006-present, (3) Drugs in Context, Editorial Advisory Board Member, 2012-present, (4) editorial board member, Journal of Clinical Apheresis
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(1) Alexion,(2) TerumoBCT
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- Correspondence to Dr. Wingerchuk: wingerchuk.dean{at}mayo.edu
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Letters: Rapid online correspondence
- Response: Transient smartphone blindness: Relevance to misdiagnosis in neurologic practice
- Gregory Y. Chang, Neurohospitalist, UC Davis Medical Center[email protected]
- Jolene Rudell, Sacramento, CA
Submitted March 20, 2017 - Re:Differential visual perception following monocular exposure to bright screen
- Dean M. Wingerchuk, Professor of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ[email protected]
- Saraniya Sathiamoorthi, Rochester, MN
Submitted February 28, 2017 - Differential visual perception following monocular exposure to bright screen
- Koushik Tripathy, Ophthalmologist, Department of Vitreoretina, Uvea, and Neuro-Ophthalmology, ICARE Eye Hospital & Postgraduate Institu[email protected]
- Trina Sengupta, New Delhi
Submitted February 14, 2017
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