The association between drusen extent and foveolar choroidal blood flow in age-related macular degeneration

Retina

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 25-31

  Berenberg, Thomas L ^a   Metelitsina, Tatyana I ^a   Madow, Brian ^a   Dai, Yang ^a   Ying, Gui Shuang ^a   Dupont, Joan C ^a   Grunwald, Lili ^a   Brucker, Alexander J ^a   Grunwald, Juan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

age related macular degeneration; choroidal blood flow; computer program; drusen; drusen quantification; laser Doppler flowmetry

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VOLUME; CHOROID; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DRUSEN; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; RETINA BLOOD FLOW; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION;

AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CHOROID; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; RETINAL DRUSEN; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84855199139     PISSN: 0275004X     EISSN: 15392864     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IAE.0b013e3182150483     Document Type: Article

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