Choroid is thinner in inferior region of optic disks of normal eyes

Retina

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 134-139

  Tanabe, Hirotaka ^a   Ito, Yasuki ^a   Terasaki, Hiroko ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

choroidal thickness mapping; enhanced depth imaging (EDI) OCT; optical coherence tomography; thinner choroid in region inferior to optic disk

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; CHOROID; CHOROIDAL THICKNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OPTIC DISK; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RETINA; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

ADULT; AGED; CHOROID; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPTIC DISK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84855200976     PISSN: 0275004X     EISSN: 15392864     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IAE.0b013e318217ff87     Document Type: Article

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