Variability of RPE reaction in two cases after selective RPE laser effects in prophylactic treatment of drusen

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 237, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 45-50

  Roider, Johann ^a,b   Brinkmann, Ralf ^c   Wirbelauer, Christopher ^a   Birngruber, Reginald ^c   Laqua, Horst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c MEDICAL LASER CENTER LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DOSIMETRY; DRUSEN; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; LASER COAGULATION; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION;

FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; LASER COAGULATION; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MIDDLE AGED; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; RETINAL DRUSEN; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0032974976     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004170050193     Document Type: Article

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