Topographic analysis to discriminate glaucomatous from normal optic nerve heads with a confocal scanning laser: New optic disk analysis without any observer input

Survey of Ophthalmology

Volumn 44, Issue 2 SUPPL. 1, 1999, Pages

  Iester, Michele ^a,b   De Ferrari, Roberta ^a,c   Zanini, Michele ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b G GASLINI INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Confocal scanning laser analysis; Glaucoma; Optic nerve head; Topographic analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; TOPOGRAPHY; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

AGED; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; OPTIC DISK; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032763798     PISSN: 00396257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0039-6257(99)00092-2     Document Type: Review

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