Color Doppler Imaging of Retinal Diseases

Survey of Ophthalmology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 193-214

  Dimitrova, Galina ^a   Kato, Satoshi ^b  

^a Center for Eye Diseases 'OKO'   (Macedonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Age related macular degeneration; Blood flow; Color Doppler imaging; Diabetic retinopathy; Myopia; Retina; Retinal artery occlusion; Retinal detachment; Retinal vein occlusion; Retinitis pigmentosa

Indexed keywords

INSULIN;

BRANCH RETINAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; CENTRAL RETINA ARTERY OCCLUSION; CENTRAL RETINA VEIN OCCLUSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC OPTIC NEUROPATHY; LASER COAGULATION; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MYOPIA; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA ARTERY OCCLUSION; RETINA BLOOD FLOW; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA DISEASE; RETINA ISCHEMIA; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA VEIN OCCLUSION; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; RETROLENTAL FIBROPLASIA; REVIEW; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; TRANSPUPILLARY THERMOTHERAPY; VITRECTOMY;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CILIARY ARTERIES; HUMANS; OPHTHALMIC ARTERY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RETINAL ARTERY; RETINAL DISEASES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 77951488178     PISSN: 00396257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.survophthal.2009.06.010     Document Type: Review

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