Evaluation of the retinal nerve fiber layer: Descriptive or predictive?

Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 245-249

  Savino, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR ISCHEMIC OPTIC NEUROPATHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; EYE FUNDUS; GLAUCOMA; HEIDELBERG RETINAL TOMOGRAPHY; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; ISCHEMIC OPTIC NEUROPATHY; MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC CHIASM; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NEURITIS; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PAPILLEDEMA; POLARIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOPAPILLEDEMA; SCANNING LASER POLARIMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; WALLERIAN DEGENERATION;

EID: 70349095327     PISSN: 10708022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNO.0b013e3181b1b3d7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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