Diagnostic accuracy of the Retinal Thickness Analyser: Differentiation between normal eyes and eyes with glaucoma or macular pathologies

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 244, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1113-1118

  Maier, Philip ^a   Funk, Jens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Glaucoma; Macula; Ophthalmologic diagnostic techniques; Retinal thickness analyser

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYZER; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; GLAUCOMA; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LONG TERM CARE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULOPATHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SLIT LAMP; THICKNESS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINA; RETINAL DISEASES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33747676830     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-006-0288-4     Document Type: Article

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