Abnormal thickening as well as thinning of the photoreceptor layer in intermediate age-related macular degeneration

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1603-1612

  Sadigh, Sam ^a   Cideciyan, Artur V ^a   Sumaroka, Alexander ^a   Huang, Wei Chieh ^a   Luo, Xunda ^a   Swider, Malgorzata ^a   Steinberg, Janet D ^a   Stambolian, Dwight ^b   Jacobson, Samuel G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUSEN; GEOGRAPHIC ATROPHY; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTORECEPTOR OUTER SEGMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HUMANS; MACULA LUTEA; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; RETINAL DRUSEN; RETINAL PHOTORECEPTOR CELL OUTER SEGMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84875418816     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.12-11286     Document Type: Article

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