Hyperreflective pyramidal structures on optical coherence tomography in geographic atrophy areas

Retina

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1524-1530

  Bonnet, Clemence ^a   Querques, Giuseppe ^a   Zerbib, Jennyfer ^a   Oubraham, Hassiba ^a   Garavito, Rocio B ^a   Puche, Nathalie ^a   Souied, Eric H ^a  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER INTERCOMMUNAL DE CRÉTEIL   (France)

Author keywords

Age related macular degeneration; Geographic atrophy; Ghost drusen; Retinal pigment epithelium; Soft drusen; Spectral domain optical coherence tomography

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE IMAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPE; DRUSEN; EYE FUNDUS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC ATROPHY; HUMAN; HYPERREFLECTIVE PYRAMIDAL STRUCTURE; MALE; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY DEVICE; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; INFRARED RADIATION; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC ATROPHY; HUMANS; INFRARED RAYS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; OPTICAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84905117783     PISSN: 0275004X     EISSN: 15392864     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IAE.0000000000000165     Document Type: Article

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