Retinal nerve fiber layer measurements using laser scanning polarimetry in different stages of glaucomatous optic nerve damage

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 240, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 608-614

  Nguyen, Nhung X ^a   Horn, F K ^a   Hayler, J ^a   Wakili, N ^a   Junemann A ^a   Mardin, C Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; MICROMORPHOLOGY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE LESION; POLARIMETRY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIMARY GLAUCOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOEXFOLIATION; RETINA NERVE CELL; SECONDARY GLAUCOMA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THICKNESS; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

EID: 0036938844     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-002-0467-x     Document Type: Article

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