Relationship between progression of visual field damage and choroidal thickness in eyes with normal-tension glaucoma

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 576-582

  Hirooka, Kazuyuki ^a   Fujiwara, Atsushi ^a   Shiragami, Chieko ^a   Baba, Tetsuya ^a   Shiraga, Fumio ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Choroidal thickness; Enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography; Mean deviation slope; Normal tension glaucoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHOROID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW TENSION GLAUCOMA; MALE; PERIMETRY; RETINA FOVEA; THICKNESS; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOROID; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LOW TENSION GLAUCOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD TESTS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 84865200510     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2012.02762.x     Document Type: Article

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