Segregation of ophthalmoscopic characteristics according to choroidal thickness in patients with early age-related macular degeneration

Retina

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1265-1271

  Switzer, David W ^a   Mendonça, Luis S ^a   Saito, Masaaki ^a   Zweifel, Sandrine A ^a   Spaide, Richard F ^a  

^a EAR AND THROAT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

age related choroidal atrophy; age related macular degeneration; choroid; choroidal thickness; enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography; reticular drusen; reticular pseudodrusen; subretinal drusenoid deposits

Indexed keywords

VISUAL PIGMENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BETA ZONE CHORIORETINA PERIPAPILLARY ATROPHY; CHOROID; CHOROID THICKNESS; CORNEA THICKNESS; DRUSEN; EYE FUNDUS; FEMALE; FUNDUS TESSELLATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RETINA DISEASE; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA SUBFOVEA THICKNESS; SUBRETINAL DRUSENOID DEPOSIT; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOROID; COLORING AGENTS; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FUNDUS OCULI; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INDOCYANINE GREEN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC ATROPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY; WET MACULAR DEGENERATION;

EID: 84862836217     PISSN: 0275004X     EISSN: 15392864     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IAE.0b013e31824453ac     Document Type: Article

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