Photography or ophthalmoscopy for detection of diabetic retinopathy? [7]

Diabetes Care

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1318-1319

  Van Leiden, Hendrik A ^a,b   Moll, Annette C ^a,b   Dekker, Jacqueline M ^b   Abramoff, Michael D ^a,c   Polak, Bettine C P ^a,b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LASER COAGULATION; LETTER; MICROANEURYSM; MICROVASCULATURE; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PHOTOGRAPHY; SCREENING TEST; SLIT LAMP; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0043169479     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.26.4.1318-a     Document Type: Letter

References (2)

1. Prasad S, Swindlehurst H, Cleaqrkin LG: National screening programme for diabetic retinopathy: screening by optometrists is better than screening by fundus photography. BMJ 323:998-999, 2001
2. Kohner EM, Stratton IM, Aldington SJ, Turner RC, Matthews DR: Microaneurysms in the development of diabetic retinopathy (UKPDS 42): U.K. Prospective Diabetes Study Group. Diabetologia 42: 1107-1112, 1999