Flicker-evoked response measured at the optic disc rim is reduced in ocular hypertension and early glaucoma

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 3662-3668

  Riva, Charles E ^a   Salgarello, Tommaso ^b   Logean, Eric ^a   Colotto, Alberto ^b   Galan, Elena M ^b   Falsini, Benedetto ^b  

^a Institut de Recherche en Ophtalmologie   (Switzerland)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FLICKER EVOKED RESPONSE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LUMINANCE; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC DISK CUP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA BLOOD FLOW; TIME;

ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; OPTIC DISK; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS;

EID: 4644357246     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.04-0100     Document Type: Article

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