Effect of Lowering Intraocular Pressure on Optical Coherence Tomography Measurement of Peripapillary Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Thickness

Ophthalmology

Volumn 114, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2252-2258

  Chang, Peter T ^a   Sekhon, Navneet ^a   Budenz, Donald L ^a   Feuer, William J ^a   Park, Paul W ^a   Anderson, Douglas R ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGLAUCOMA AGENT; FLUOROURACIL; MITOMYCIN C;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE ABNORMALITY; MALE; NERVE FIBER; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REDUCTION; RETINA NERVE CELL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THICKNESS;

AGED; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; EXFOLIATION SYNDROME; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA DRAINAGE IMPLANTS; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TRABECULECTOMY;

EID: 36549031684     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2007.02.012     Document Type: Article

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