Axial length increases and related changes in highly myopic normal eyes with myopic complications in fellow eyes

Retina

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 127-133

  Takahashi, Akiko ^a   Ito, Yasuki ^a   Iguchi, Yuko ^a   Yasuma, Tetsuhiro R ^a   Ishikawa, Kohei ^a   Terasaki, Hiroko ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

axial length elongation; choroidal thickness; high myopia; myopic complication; optical coherence tomography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHOROID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE AXIS LENGTH; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; HIGH MYOPIA; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAPHYLOMA; UVEA DISEASE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AXIAL LENGTH, EYE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHOROID; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA, DEGENERATIVE; RETINA; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84855188744     PISSN: 0275004X     EISSN: 15392864     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IAE.0b013e318214d094     Document Type: Article

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