Early signs of longitudinal progressive cone photoreceptor degeneration in achromatopsia

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 96, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1232-1236

  Thomas, Mervyn George ^a   McLean, Rebecca Jane ^a   Kohl, Susanne ^b   Sheth, Viral ^a   Gottlob, Irene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ADULT; AGE; ALLELE; ARTICLE; ATYPICAL FOVEAL HYPOPLASIA; CENTRAL MACULAR LAYER THICKNESS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CNGA3; CNGB3; COLOR BLINDNESS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; DISEASE COURSE; FOLLOW UP; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE; GNAT2; HUMAN; HYPER REFLECTIVE ZONE; HYPO REFLECTIVE ZONE; INNER SEGEMENT OUTER SEGMENT JUNCTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MORPHOLOGY; NONSENSE MUTATION; OUTER NUCLEAR LAYER THICKNESS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE PHOTORECEPTOR DEGENERATION; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA DISEASE; RETINA FOVEA; RETINAL MORPHOLOGY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; STOP CODON; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLOR VISION DEFECTS; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE-GATED CATION CHANNELS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL DEGENERATION; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84866089135     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: 14682079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjophthalmol-2012-301737     Document Type: Article

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