Five-Year Follow-up of Fellow Eyes of Patients With Age-Related Macular Degeneration and Unilateral Extrafoveal Choroidal Neovascularization

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 111, Issue 9, 1993, Pages 1189-1199

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ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CHOROID VASCULARIZATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LASER COAGULATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULOPATHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCAR FORMATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLINDNESS; CHOROID; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOVEA CENTRALIS; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0027213771     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.1993.01090090041018     Document Type: Article

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