Agreement for Detecting Glaucoma Progression with the GDx Guided Progression Analysis, Automated Perimetry, and Optic Disc Photography

Ophthalmology

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 462-470

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OPTIC DISK PHOTOGRAPHY; PERIMETRY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOPHOTOGRAMMETRY;

DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; GONIOSCOPY; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; PERIMETRY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCANNING LASER POLARIMETRY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77249106441     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2009.08.012     Document Type: Article

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