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Structural versus functional damage in diagnosis of glaucoma /

Doaa Mahmoud Abdelghany Shuaib

Structural versus functional damage in diagnosis of glaucoma / دور التلف البنائى مقارنة بالتلف الوظيفى فى تشخيص الجلوكوما Doaa Mahmoud Abdelghany Shuaib ; Supervised Zeinab Saad Eldin Elsanabary , Karim Adly Raafat , Ahmed Reda Awadein - Cairo : Doaa Mahmoud Abdelghany Shuaib , 2011 - 122P. : charts , facsimiles ; 25cm

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Ophthalmology

Glaucoma causes death of RGCs and their axons . Thus, its structural effects can be measured both by loss of thickness of the RGCs and RNFL and by topographical changes of the ONH . Glaucomatous functional deficits similarly result from RGCs loss with defects in visual sensitivity found in the receptive fields of the damaged neurins



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