Optical coherence tomography of the swollen optic nerve head: Deformation of the peripapillary retinal pigment epithelium layer in papilledema

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 6558-6564

  Kupersmith, Mark J ^a   Sibony, Patrick ^b   Mandel, Gary ^a   Durbin, Mary ^c   Kardon, Randy H ^d  

^a ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CARL ZEISS SMT AG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR ISCHEMIC OPTIC NEUROPATHY; ARTICLE; BRUCH MEMBRANE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE SWELLING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; NERVE FIBER; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NEURITIS; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PAPILLEDEMA; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THICKNESS; BIOMECHANICS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC OPTIC NEUROPATHY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SUBARACHNOID SPACE;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; BRUCH MEMBRANE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NEURITIS; OPTIC NEUROPATHY, ISCHEMIC; PAPILLEDEMA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 80054791984     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-6782     Document Type: Article

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