Five-Year Incidence and Disappearance of Drusen and Retinal Pigment Epithelial Abnormalities: Waterman Study

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 301-308

  Bressler, Neil M ^a   Munoz, Beatriz ^a   Maguire, Maureen G ^a   Vitale, Susan E ^a   Schein, Oliver D ^a   Taylor, Hugh R ^b   West, Sheila K ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUSEN; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA PIGMENT DEGENERATION; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOROID; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MARYLAND; MIDDLE AGE; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; OCCUPATIONS; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; RETINAL DRUSEN; RISK FACTORS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0028921773     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.1995.01100030055022     Document Type: Article

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