Foveolar choroidal blood flow in age-related macular degeneration

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 385-390

  Grunwald, Juan E ^a   Hariprasad, Seenu M ^a   DuPont, Joan ^a   Maguire, Maureen G ^a   Fine, Stuart L ^a   Brucker, Alexander J ^a   Maguire, Albert M ^a   Ho, Allen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUSEN; FEMALE; HUMAN; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW; RETINA BLOOD FLOW; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHOROID; FEMALE; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0031941450     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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