Reduced Cortical Thickness in Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma and Its Relationship to the Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Thickness

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Yu, Longhua ^a,b   Xie, Bing ^a   Yin, Xuntao ^a   Liang, Minglong ^a   Evans, Alan C ^c   Wang, Jian ^a   Dai, Chao ^a  

^a THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b 401 Hospital of PLA   (China)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCARINE SULCUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYER THICKNESS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL GYRUS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; OPTIC NERVE; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883344004     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073208     Document Type: Article

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