A comparison of rates of change in neuroretinal rim area and retinal nerve fiber layer thickness in progressive glaucoma

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 3531-3539

  Alencar, Luciana M ^a,b   Zangwill, Linda M ^a   Weinreb, Robert N ^a   Bowd, Christopher ^a   Sample, Pamela A ^a   Girkin, Christopher A ^c   Liebmann, Jeffrey M ^d   Medeiros, Felipe A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^d NEW YORK EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NEURORETINAL RIM; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OPTIC DISK; PERIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETINA; RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYER; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; SCANNING LASER POLARIMETRY; STEREOPHOTOGRAMMETRY; THICKNESS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBER; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETINA GANGLION CELL; VISUAL FIELD;

DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC DISK; PERIMETRY; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SCANNING LASER POLARIMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 77955914611     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-4350     Document Type: Article

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