Peripapillary chorioretinal atrophy: Bruch's membrane changes and photoreceptor loss

Ophthalmology

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 334-343

  Curcio, Christine A ^a,b   Saunders, Phillip L ^a   Younger, Perry W ^a   Malek, Goldis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BRUCH MEMBRANE; CHORIORETINOPATHY; CHOROID CAPILLARY LAYER; CHOROID GYRATE ATROPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; RETINA GYRATE ATROPHY; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA PIGMENT DEGENERATION; RETINA ROD;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATROPHY; BRUCH MEMBRANE; CARBONIC ANHYDRASES; CELL DEATH; CHOROID; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIPID METABOLISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPTIC DISK; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION;

EID: 0034027664     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0161-6420(99)00037-8     Document Type: Article

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