Ten-year results: Detection of long-term progressive optic disc changes with confocal laser tomography

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 244, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 460-464

  Philippin, Heiko ^a   Unsoeld, Anke ^a   Maier, Philip ^a   Walter, Sebastian ^a   Bach, Michael ^a   Funk, Jens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Disease progression; Eye; Glaucoma; Optic disc; Scanning laser tomography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NERVE FIBER; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOMOGRAPHY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; LASERS; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 33645770720     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-005-0094-4     Document Type: Article

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