The retinal nerve fiber layer thickness in ocular hypertensive, normal, and glaucomatous eyes with optical coherence tomography

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 22-26

  Bowd, Christopher ^a   Weinreb, Robert N ^a   Williams, Julia M ^a   Zangwill, Linda M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATIENT CODING; PERIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA NEUROEPITHELIAL LAYER; THICKNESS;

EID: 0033986066     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.118.1.22     Document Type: Article

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