Macular pigment and visual acuity in Stargardt macular dystrophy

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 240, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 802-809

  Zhang, Xinyuan ^a,b   Hargitai, János ^a,c   Tammur, Jaana ^a,d   Hutchinson, Amy ^a   Allikmets, Rando ^a   Chang, Stanley ^a   Gouras, Peter ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARGON LASER; ARTICLE; BLUE LIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HELIUM NEON LASER; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFRARED RADIATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; RED LIGHT; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STARGARDT DISEASE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0036934883     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-002-0554-z     Document Type: Article

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