Measuring geographic atrophy in advanced age-related macular degeneration

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1761-1769

  Sunness, Janet S ^a,b   Bressler, Neil M ^b,c   Tian, Yan ^c   Alexander, Judith ^c   Applegate, Carol A ^a  

^a Lions Vision Center   (United States)

^b Retinal Vascular Center   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHOROID; EYE FUNDUS; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; ATROPHY; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERIMETRY; PHOTOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINA; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0032990052     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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