Detection of progressive retinal nerve fiber layer loss in glaucoma using scanning laser polarimetry with variable corneal compensation

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1675-1681

  Medeiros, Felipe A ^a   Alencar, Luciana M ^a   Zangwill, Linda M ^a   Bowd, Christopher ^a   Vizzeri, Gianmarco ^a   Sample, Pamela A ^a   Weinreb, Robert N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED PERIMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXPERT; NEGRO; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POLARIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETINA DISEASE; RETINA NERVE CELL LOSS; SEX DIFFERENCE; STEREOPHOTOGRAMMETRY; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; BIREFRINGENCE; CORNEA; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBER; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIMETRY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETINA GANGLION CELL; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

AXONS; BIREFRINGENCE; CORNEA; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASERS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; PERIMETRY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 64049091116     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.08-2712     Document Type: Article

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