Macular and retinal nerve fiber layer thickness: Which is more helpful in the diagnosis of glaucoma?

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 8094-8101

  Na, Jung Hwa ^a   Sung, Kyung Rim ^a   Baek, Seunghee ^a   Sun, Jae Hong ^a   Lee, Youngrok ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; MACULAR THICKNESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPTIC DISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYER THICKNESS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBER; OCULOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; VISUAL ACUITY;

AREA UNDER CURVE; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MACULA LUTEA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; ROC CURVE; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TONOMETRY, OCULAR; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84855176613     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.11-7833     Document Type: Article

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