Fundus autofluorescence and fundus perimetry in the junctional zone of geographic atrophy in patients with age-related macular degeneration

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 4470-4476

  Schmitz Valckenberg, Steffen ^a   Bültmann, Stefan ^b   Dreyhaupt, Jens ^b   Bindewald, Almut ^a   Holz, Frank G ^a   Rohrschneider, Klaus ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOFUSCIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EYE FUNDUS; HUMAN; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PATHOGENESIS; PERIMETRY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATROPHY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIMETRY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETINA; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 9444239272     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.03-1311     Document Type: Article

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