Retinal pigment epithelial cell transplantation after subfoveal membranectomy in age-related macular degeneration: Clinicopathologic correlation

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 472-480

  Del Priore, Lucian V ^a   Kaplan, Henry J ^a,c   Tezel, Tongalp H ^a   Hayashi, Nobutsugu ^b   Berger, Adam S ^a   Green, W Richard ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; PREDNISONE;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CYST; DEATH; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; PATHOLOGY; PHOTORECEPTOR; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA SURGERY; SUBFOVEAL MEMBRANECTOMY; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRUCH MEMBRANE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOVEA CENTRALIS; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; ROD OUTER SEGMENTS;

EID: 0035060725     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9394(00)00850-3     Document Type: Article

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