Short-term retinal vessel diameter variability in relation to the history of cold extremities

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 4026-4033

  Kochkorov, Asan ^a   Gugleta, Konstantin ^a   Zawinka, Claudia ^a   Katamay, Robert ^a   Flammer, Josef ^a   Orgul, Selim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY EYE CLINIC   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CAPILLAROSCOPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLD INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EYE FUNDUS; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HEART BEAT; HUMAN; LIMB; NAIL; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; VASOSPASM; VENULE; ANTHROPOMETRY; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COLD; PATHOLOGY; RETINA ARTERY; RETINA VEIN; VASCULARIZATION; VASOCONSTRICTION; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTERIOLES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COLD; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; NAILS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RETINAL ARTERY; RETINAL VEIN; VASOCONSTRICTION; VENULES;

EID: 33749149682     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.06-0177     Document Type: Article

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