Morphological aspects of normal optic disc and early signs of glaucomatous alterations.
A group of 110 eyes with untreated ocular hypertension, 94 being non-exfoliative and 16 exfoliative and in addition 10 glaucomatous eyes were selected for this study. The optic nerve head was examined by ophthalmoscopy and a drawing was made of the estimated cupping. The disc pallor was measured from disc photographs in a double masked manner at the same time. The possibility to detect early glaucomatous damage by a single examination will be discussed and the two methods will be compared. This study indicates that an increasing vertical diameter of disc pallor might have a predictive value.
Linner
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University of Göteborg, Sweden.
Schwartz
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Araujo
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D000368:Aged; D005901:Glaucoma / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009798:Ocular Hypertension / Q000473:pathology; D009898:Optic Disk / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000098:blood supply / Q000473:pathology*