Visual insignificance of the foveal pit: Reassessment of foveal hypoplasia as fovea plana

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 126, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 907-913

  Marmor, Michael F ^a,c   Choi, Stacey S ^b   Zawadzki, Robert J ^b   Werner, John S ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; FOVEAL HYPOPLASIA; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; IMAGING; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DISEASE; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; SCHOOL CHILD; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; ALBINISM, OCULOCUTANEOUS; CHILD; CONES (RETINA); ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EYE ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 47549089269     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 00039950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.126.7.907     Document Type: Article

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