Refraction, axial length and age-related maculopathy

Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 419-423

  Ulvik, Solveig Otteren ^a,b   Seland, Johan H ^a,b   Wentzel Larsen, Tore ^a  

^a HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Age related macular degeneration; Age related maculopathy; Axial length; Refraction

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EYE AXIS LENGTH; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PATIENT SELECTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; EYE; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MORPHOMETRICS; NORWAY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; EYE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; NORWAY; PREVALENCE; REFRACTION, OCULAR; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 85052549713     PISSN: 13953907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0420.2005.00520.x     Document Type: Article

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