Fundus autofluorescence and spectral-domain optical coherence tomography characteristics in a rapidly progressing form of geographic atrophy

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 3761-3766

  Fleckenstein, Monika ^a   Schmitz Valckenberg, Steffen ^a   Martens, Christine ^a   Kosanetzky, Sebastian ^a   Brinkmann, Christian K ^a   Hageman, Gregory S ^b   Holz, Frank G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A SCAN; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE IMAGING; BRUCH MEMBRANE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EYE FUNDUS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC ATROPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; GENETICS; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETINA MACULA LUTEA;

AGED; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENCE; FUNDUS OCULI; GEOGRAPHIC ATROPHY; HUMANS; MACULA LUTEA; MALE; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PHENOTYPE; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 80051707434     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-7021     Document Type: Article

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