Topography of geographic atrophy in age-related macular degeneration

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 4932-4939

  Mauschitz, Matthias M ^a   Fonseca, Sofia ^a   Chang, Petrus ^a   Göbel, Arno P ^a   Fleckenstein, Monika ^a   Jaffe, Glenn J ^b   Holz, Frank G ^a   Schmitz Valckenberg, Steffen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY EYE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; EYE FUNDUS; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHIC ATROPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OPTIC DISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TOPOGRAPHY; FEMALE; KERATOMETRY; MALE; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; PATHOLOGY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; OPTIC ATROPHY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE;

EID: 84867377747     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.12-9711     Document Type: Article

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