Choroidal thickness and visual acuity in highly myopic eyes

Retina

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1229-1236

  Nishida, Yasunori ^a   Fujiwara, Takamitsu ^a,b   Imamura, Yutaka ^b   Lima, Luiz H ^b   Kurosaka, Daijiro ^a   Spaide, Richard F ^b  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b EAR AND THROAT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

choroidal thickness; High myopia; visual acuity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HIGH MYOPIA; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MYOPIC MACULAR SCHISIS; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PREDICTION; RETINA FOVEA; RETINOSCHISIS; SUBFOVEAL CHOROIDAL THICKNESS; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; AXIAL LENGTH, EYE; CHOROID; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA, DEGENERATIVE; ORGAN SIZE; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84862866851     PISSN: 0275004X     EISSN: 15392864     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IAE.0b013e318242b990     Document Type: Article

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