Relationship of retinal vascular caliber with optic disc diameter in children

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 4945-4948

  Cheung, Ning ^a   Tong, Louis ^b   Tikellis, Gabriella ^a   Saw, Seang Mei ^b,c   Mitchell, Paul ^d   Wang, Jie Jin ^a,d   Wong, Tien Yin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DIGITAL IMAGING; ETHNICITY; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENDER; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTIC DISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; SCHOOL; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGAPORE; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; BODY CONSTITUTION; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; MORPHOMETRICS; PATHOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; RETINA ARTERY; RETINA VEIN; VASCULARIZATION; VENULE;

ARTERIOLES; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OPTIC DISK; PHOTOGRAPHY; RETINAL ARTERY; RETINAL VEIN; VENULES;

EID: 38449113378     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.07-0472     Document Type: Article

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