Choroid, Haller's, and Sattler's layer thickness in intermediate age-related macular degeneration with and without fellow neovascular eyes

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 5074-5080

  Esmaeelpour, Marieh ^a,b   Ansari Shahrezaei, Siamak ^a   Glittenberg, Carl ^a   Nemetz, Susanne ^c   Kraus, Martin F ^d   Hornegger, Joachim ^d   Fujimoto, James G ^e   Drexler, Wolfgang ^b   Binder, Susanne ^a  

^a KRANKENANSTALT RUDOLFSTIFTUNG   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c Optik Nemetz   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^e Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Age related macular degeneration; Choroid; Choroidal thickness maps; Optical coherence tomography; Retina

Indexed keywords

AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION; CHOROID; CHOROIDAL THICKNESS MAPS; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RETINA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOROID; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETINA; RETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84906070258     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.14-14646     Document Type: Article

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