Strontium plaque irradiation of subfoveal neovascular membranes in age-related macular degeneration

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 236, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 24-30

  Jaakkola, Aino ^a   Heikkonen, Jorma ^a   Tommila, Petri ^a   Laatikainen, Leila ^a   Immonen, Ilkka ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STRONTIUM; STRONTIUM 90;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHOROID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTRON THERAPY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SCLERA; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CHOROID; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOVEA CENTRALIS; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; STRONTIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0031939490     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004170050038     Document Type: Article

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