In vivo imaging of foveal sparing in geographic atrophy secondary to age-related macular degeneration

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 3915-3921

  Schmitz Valckenberg, Steffen ^a   Fleckenstein, Monika ^a   Helb, Hans Martin ^a   Issa, Peter Charbel ^a   Scholl, Hendrik P N ^a   Holz, Frank G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE IMAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC ATROPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; THICKNESS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; PATHOLOGY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENCE; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC ATROPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 68349089202     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.08-2484     Document Type: Article

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