Focal electroretinograms and fundus appearance in nonexudative age-related macular degeneration. Quantitative relationship between retinal morphology and function

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 237, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 193-200

  Falsini, Benedetto ^a   Serrao, Sebastiano ^a   Fadda, Antonello ^b   Iarossi, Giancarlo ^a   Porrello, Giovanni ^a   Cocco, Francesco ^a   Merendino, Erasmo ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; EYE FUNDUS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; RETINA PIGMENT DEGENERATION; STEREOSCOPIC VISION; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; RETINA;

EID: 0033011737     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004170050218     Document Type: Article

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