Assessment of choroidal thickness in healthy and glaucomatous eyes using swept source optical coherence tomography

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Zhang, Chunwei ^a,b   Tatham, Andrew J ^a   Medeiros, Felipe A ^a   Zangwill, Linda M ^a   Yang, Zhiyong ^a   Weinreb, Robert N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANCESTRY GROUP; ARTICLE; CENTRAL CORNEAL THICKNESS; CHOROID; CHOROIDAL THICKNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EYE AXIS LENGTH; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PERIMETRY; RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYER THICKNESS; STEREOPHOTOGRAMMETRY; SWEPT SOURCE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; AGING; BLOOD PRESSURE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

AGED; AGING; BLOOD PRESSURE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHOROID; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84907858051     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0109683     Document Type: Article

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