Measurement of choroidal melanoma basal diameter by wide-angle digital fundus camera: A comparison with ultrasound measurement

Ophthalmologica

Volumn 220, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 194-197

  Pe'er, Jacob ^a   Sancho, Cristhian ^a   Cantu, Jorge ^a   Eilam, Sheerlee ^a   Barzel, Israel ^a   Shulman, Marina ^a   Blumenthal, Eytan Z ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Basal diameter; Choroidal melanoma; Fundus photography; Ophthalmic ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; B SCAN; CAMERA; CHOROID MELANOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FUNDUS; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PIGMENTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; ULTRASOUND;

CHOROID NEOPLASMS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; MELANOMA; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33646527347     PISSN: 00303755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000091765     Document Type: Article

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