Predictors for the progression of geographic atrophy in patients with age-related macular degeneration: Fundus autofluorescence study with modified fundus camera

Eye (Basingstoke)

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 209-218

  Jeong, Y J ^a   Hong, I H ^a   Chung, J K ^a   Kim, K L ^a   Kim, H K ^a   Park, S P ^a,b  

^a Hallym University Medical Center   (South Korea)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

age related macular degeneration; fundus autofluorescence; fundus camera; geographic atrophy; progression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; CONFOCAL SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; DISEASE COURSE; EXCITATION; FEMALE; FUNDUS AUTOFLUORESCENCE; FUNDUS CAMERA; GEOGRAPHIC ATROPHY; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FUNDUS OCULI; GEOGRAPHIC ATROPHY; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PHOTOGRAPHY; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84894215783     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: 14765454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.2013.275     Document Type: Article

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