Telemedicine and retinal imaging for improving diabetic retinopathy evaluation

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 172, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 1677-1678

  Garg, Seema ^a   Jani, Pooja D ^a   Kshirsagar, Abhijit V ^a   King, Bradley ^a   Chaum, Edward ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; HEMOGLOBIN A1C;

ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEART INFARCTION; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IMAGING; KIDNEY DISEASE; NEGRO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA EXAMINATION; RETINAL IMAGING; SMOKING; TELEMEDICINE;

DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETINA; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 84870499813     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.4372     Document Type: Article

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