Comparison of the optical coherence tomographic features of choroidal neovascular membranes in pathological myopia versus age-related macular degeneration, using quantitative subanalysis

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 92, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1081-1085

  Keane, P A ^a   Liakopoulos, S ^b   Chang, K T ^a   Heussen, F M ^b   Ongchin, S C ^c   Walsh, A C ^c   Sadda, S R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MORPHOLOGY; MYOPIA; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SUBRETINAL FLUID; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA, DEGENERATIVE; PAPILLEDEMA; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; RETINA; RETINAL DETACHMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 49049097894     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2008.138891     Document Type: Article

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