Quantitative analysis of outer retinal tubulation in age-related macular degeneration from spectral-domain optical coherence tomography and histology

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 2647-2656

  Litts, Katie M ^a,b   Ach, Thomas ^a,c   Hammack, Kristen M ^a,b   Sloan, Kenneth R ^a,b   Zhang, Yuhua ^a   Freund, K Bailey ^d,e   Curcio, Christine A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^d VITREOUS RETINA MACULA CONSULTANTS OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Age related macular degeneration; Cones; Ellipsoid; Histology; M ller cells; Outer retinal tubulation; Photoreceptors; Spectral domain optical coherence tomography

Indexed keywords

AGE RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROPROTECTION; OUTER RETINAL TUBULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCEDURES; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REFLECTOMETRY; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; TRABECULAR MESHWORK; VERY ELDERLY; DISEASE COURSE; MACULAR DEGENERATION; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA; RETINA CONE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINA; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84969262181     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.16-19262     Document Type: Article

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