Evaluation of microvascularization pattern visibility in human choroidal melanomas: Comparison of confocal fluorescein with indocyanine green angiography

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 237, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 448-456

  Mueller, A J ^a   Freeman, W R ^b   Folberg, R ^c   Bartsch, D U ^b   Scheider, A ^a   Schaller, U ^a   Kampik, A ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN; INDOCYANINE GREEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHOROID MELANOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INDOCYANINE GREEN ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MICROVASCULARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; CHOROID NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INDOCYANINE GREEN; MALE; MELANOMA; MELANOMA, AMELANOTIC; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0033019325     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004170050260     Document Type: Article

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