Choroidal perfusion in eyes with untreated choroidal melanoma

Acta Ophthalmologica

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 404-407

  Resch, Hemma ^a   Garhöfer, Gerhard ^a,b   Schmetterer, Leopold ^a   Zehetmayer, Martin ^b   Dorner, Guido T ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Choroidal blood flow; Choroidal melanoma; Fundus pulsation amplitude; Pneumotonometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHOROID MELANOMA; CHOROID VASCULARIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EYE BLOOD FLOW; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERFEROMETRY; MALE; PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW; TONOMETRY; TUMOR VOLUME; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHOROID; CHOROID TUMOR; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; OCULOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY; OPHTHALMODYNAMOMETRY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHOROID; CHOROID NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERFEROMETRY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMODYNAMOMETRY; PULSATILE FLOW; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TONOMETRY, OCULAR;

EID: 47649123861     PISSN: 1755375X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0420.2007.01076.x     Document Type: Article

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