Optic nerve head and fibre layer imaging for diagnosing glaucoma

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2015, Issue 11, 2015, Pages

  Michelessi, Manuele ^a   Lucenteforte, Ersilia ^b   Oddone, Francesco ^a   Brazzelli, Miriam ^c   Parravano, Mariacristina ^a   Franchi, Sara ^d   Ng, Sueko M ^e   Virgili, Gianni ^b  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE BIETTI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^d CAREGGI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FAMILY HISTORY; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYER; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; SCANNING LASER POLARIMETRY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; META ANALYSIS; NERVE FIBER; ODDS RATIO; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PATHOLOGY; PERIMETRY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; NERVE FIBERS; ODDS RATIO; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC DISK; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCANNING LASER POLARIMETRY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL FIELD TESTS;

EID: 84963943330     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD008803.pub2     Document Type: Review

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