Clinical course of newly developed or progressive patchy chorioretinal atrophy in pathological myopia

Ophthalmologica

Volumn 212, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 23-29

  Ito Ohara, Mutsuko ^a   Seko, Yuko ^a   Morita, Hiroyuki ^a   Imagawa, Nobuo ^b   Tokoro, Takashi ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Imagawa Eye Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

Choriocapillaris; Myopia pathological; Patchy chorioretinal atrophy; Retinal pigment epithelium

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHORIORETINOPATHY; CHOROID CAPILLARY LAYER; EYE FUNDUS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOPIA; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; AGED; ATROPHY; BLINDNESS; CHOROID; CHOROID DISEASES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; MACULA LUTEA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; RETINAL DEGENERATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0031962817     PISSN: 00303755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000027254     Document Type: Article

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