Does optic nerve head size variation affect circumpapillary retinal nerve fiber layer thickness measurement by optical coherence tomography?

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 4990-4997

  Huang, David ^a   Chopra, Vikas ^b   Lu, Ake Tzu Hui ^b   Tan, Ou ^a   Francis, Brian ^b   Varma, Rohit ^b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CEPHALOMETRY; COHORT ANALYSIS; EYE AXIS LENGTH; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYER THICKNESS; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; AGED; CYTOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; ORGAN SIZE; RETINA GANGLION CELL;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC DISK; ORGAN SIZE; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84867372679     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.11-8214     Document Type: Article

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