Patterns of increased in vivo fundus autofluorescence in the junctional zone of geographic atrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium associated with age-related macular degeneration

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 237, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 145-152

  Holz, Frank G ^a   Bellmann, Caren ^a   Margaritidis, Melenaos ^a   Schütt, Florian ^a   Otto, Tilman P ^b   Völcker, Hans E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOFUSCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARGON LASER; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EYE FUNDUS; HUMAN; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATROPHY; FLUORESCENCE; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; LASERS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOSCOPES; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; RETINAL DISEASES;

EID: 0033026846     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004170050209     Document Type: Article

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