Stereotactic radiation therapy for subfoveal choroidal neovascularization secondary to age-related macular degeneration

Frontiers of Radiation Therapy and Oncology

Volumn 30, Issue , 1997, Pages 238-246

  Holz, Frank G ^a   Engenhart, Rita ^a   Bellmann, Caren ^a   Debus, J ^a   Völcker, Hans E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CHOROID; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EYE FUNDUS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOSURGERY; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOROID; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOVEA CENTRALIS; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0030633725     PISSN: 00719676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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