The association between retinal vessel diameter and retinal nerve fiber layer thickness in asymmetric normal tension glaucoma patients

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 5609-5614

  Kim, Joon Mo ^a   Kim, Mo Sae ^b   Jang, Hyo Ju ^a   Park, Ki Ho ^c   Caprioli, Joseph ^d  

^a School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b National Cancer Center   (South Korea)

^c Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^d JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE EXAMINATION; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; GONIOSCOPY; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LOW TENSION GLAUCOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PERIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYER THICKNESS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; ARTERIOLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBER; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC DISK; PATHOLOGY; RETINA GANGLION CELL; VENULE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOLES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LOW TENSION GLAUCOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC DISK; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RETINAL VESSELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VENULES; VISUAL FIELD TESTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871679138     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.12-9783     Document Type: Article

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