Association between optic nerve blood flow and objective examinations in glaucoma patients with generalized enlargement disc type

Clinical Ophthalmology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1549-1556

  Chiba, Naoki ^a   Omodaka, Kazuko ^a   Yokoyama, Yu ^a   Aizawa, Naoko ^a   Tsuda, Satoru ^a   Yasuda, Masayuki ^a   Otomo, Takaaki ^a   Yokokura, Shunji ^a   Fuse, Nobuo ^a   Nakazawa, Toru ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Function; Laser speckle flowgraphy; Ocular blood flow; Optic disc type; Structure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ENLARGEMENT DISC TYPE GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RETINA NERVE CELL; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

EID: 81155137942     PISSN: 11775467     EISSN: 11775483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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