Enlargement of atrophy and visual acuity loss in the geographic atrophy form of age-related macular degeneration

Ophthalmology

Volumn 106, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1768-1779

  Sunness, Janet S ^a,b,c   Gonzalez Baron, Joel ^a   Applegate, Carol A ^a   Bressler, Neil M ^a,b   Tian, Yan ^b   Hawkins, Barbara ^b   Barron, Yolanda ^b   Bergman, Akiva ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; EYE FUNDUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 0033499369     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0161-6420(99)90340-8     Document Type: Article

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