Relationship of retinal vascular caliber with retinal nerve fiber layer thickness: The singapore malay eye study

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 4091-4096

  Zheng, Yingfeng ^a,b   Cheung, Ning ^c   Aung, Tin ^a,d   Mitchell, Paul ^e   He, Mingguang ^b   Wong, Tien Y ^a,c,d  

^a SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA NERVE CELL; SINGAPORE; VENULE; ASIAN; BODY CONSTITUTION; ETHNOLOGY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBER; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; RETINA GANGLION CELL; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIOLES; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY CONSTITUTION; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; PHOTOGRAPHY; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RETINAL VESSELS; SINGAPORE; VENULES;

EID: 70349263458     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-3444     Document Type: Article

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