Lack of association between glaucoma and macular choroidal thickness measured with enhanced depth-imaging optical coherence tomography

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 3430-3435

  Mwanza, Jean Claude ^a   Hochberg, Jessica T ^a   Banitt, Michael R ^a   Feuer, William J ^a   Budenz, Donald L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHOROIDAL THICKNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNICITY; EYE AXIS LENGTH; FEMALE; GENDER; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LOW TENSION GLAUCOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; ADULT; CHOROID; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FILTERING OPERATION; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHOMETRICS; OCULOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; AXIAL LENGTH, EYE; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CHOROID; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FILTERING SURGERY; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LOW TENSION GLAUCOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TONOMETRY, OCULAR;

EID: 79960049998     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-6600     Document Type: Article

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