The choroid in glaucoma

Current Opinion in Ophthalmology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 125-129

  Banitt, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Choroidal Thickness; Enhanced Depth Imaging; Glaucoma; Peripapillary

Indexed keywords

VISUAL PIGMENT;

CENTRAL CORNEAL THICKNESS; CHOROID; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; GLAUCOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTIC NERVE LESION; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; REVIEW; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY;

CHOROID; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84876297754     PISSN: 10408738     EISSN: 15317021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICU.0b013e32835d9245     Document Type: Review

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