Correlation between subfoveal choroidal thickness and the severity or progression of nonexudative age-related macular degeneration

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 7812-7818

  Lee, Jin Young ^a   Lee, Dong Hoon ^a   Lee, Joo Yong ^a   Yoon, Young Hee ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Geographic atrophy; Nonexudative age related macular degeneration; Subfoveal choroidal thickness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE IMAGING; CENTRAL RETINAL THICKNESS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GEOGRAPHIC ATROPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; STAGING; SUBFOVEAL CHOROIDAL THICKNESS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

GEOGRAPHIC ATROPHY; NONEXUDATIVE AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION; SUBFOVEAL CHOROIDAL THICKNESS;

AGED; CHOROID; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOVEA CENTRALIS; FUNDUS OCULI; GEOGRAPHIC ATROPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84888107885     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.13-12284     Document Type: Article

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