Morphometric study of the displacement of retinal ganglion cells subserving cones within the human fovea

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 237, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1014-1023

  Sjöstrand, Johann ^a   Popovic, Zoran ^a   Conradi, Nils ^c   Marshall, John ^b  

^a Institute of Clinical Neuroscience   (Sweden)

^b ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MORPHOMETRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA CONE; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA GANGLION CELL;

ADULT; AGED; CELL COUNT; CONES (RETINA); FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; LASERS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROGNOSIS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SCOTOMA;

EID: 0343550423     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004170050338     Document Type: Article

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