High-definition optical coherence tomographic visualization of photoreceptor layer and retinal flecks in fundus albipunctatus associated with cone dystrophy

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 703-706

  Querques, Giuseppe ^a   Carrillo, Pascal ^b   Querques, Lea ^b   Bux, Anna V ^b   Del Curatolo, Maria V ^b   Delle Noci, Nicola ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; EYE EXAMINATION; EYE FUNDUS ALBIPUNCTATUS; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; LETTER; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; RETINA DYSTROPHY; VISUAL ACUITY; ARTICLE; DARK ADAPTATION; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EYE FUNDUS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NIGHT BLINDNESS; PATHOLOGY; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RETINA DEGENERATION; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

DARK ADAPTATION; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NIGHT BLINDNESS; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 65649105723     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2009.87     Document Type: Letter

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