Therapeutic range of repetitive nanosecond laser exposures in selective RPE photocoagulation

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 236, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 213-219

  Roider, Johann ^a   Lindemann, Cornelia ^b   El Hifnawi, El Sayed ^a   Laqua, Horst ^a   Birngruber, Reginald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b MEDICAL LASER CENTER LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN;

ANALYZER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LASER COAGULATION; MICROSCOPY; NEODYMIUM LASER; NONHUMAN; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RETINA; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; EYE INJURIES; FUNDUS OCULI; LASER COAGULATION; PHOTORECEPTORS; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; RABBITS; REOPERATION; RETINAL HEMORRHAGE; SAFETY;

EID: 0031943861     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004170050067     Document Type: Article

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