The relationship between retinal ganglion cell function and retinal nerve fiber thickness in early glaucoma

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 3904-3911

  Ventura, Lori M ^a   Sorokac, Nancy ^a   De Los Santos, Roosevelt ^a   Feuer, William J ^a   Porciatti, Vittorio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PERIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; REFRACTION ERROR; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA NERVE CELL; STANDARD; THICKNESS; VISUAL ACUITY; ANTHROPOMETRY; CELL COUNT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBER; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL FIELD;

AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; CELL COUNT; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; PERIMETRY; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 33749134622     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.06-0161     Document Type: Article

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