Effect of change in drusen evolution on photoreceptor inner segment/outer segment junction

Retina

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1492-1499

  Hartmann, Kathrin I ^a,b   Gomez, Maria L ^a   Bartsch, Dirk Uwe G ^a   Schuster, Alexander K ^a   Freeman, William R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

drusen progression; drusen regression; dry age related macular degeneration; inner segment outer segment junction; spectral domain optical coherence tomography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DRUSEN; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PHOTORECEPTOR INNER SEGMENT; PHOTORECEPTOR OUTER SEGMENT; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; VISUAL ACUITY;

GEOGRAPHIC ATROPHY; HUMANS; RETINAL DRUSEN; RETINAL PHOTORECEPTOR CELL INNER SEGMENT; RETINAL PHOTORECEPTOR CELL OUTER SEGMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84865740638     PISSN: 0275004X     EISSN: 15392864     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IAE.0b013e318242b949     Document Type: Article

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