Presentation delay in patients affected with exudative age-related macular degeneration

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 240, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 31-34

  Haddad, Walid M ^a   Seres, Andras ^b   Coscas, Gabriel ^a   Soubrane, Gisèle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST CRÉTEIL   (France)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZOPORPHYRIN DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXUDATIVE RETINITIS; HUMAN; LASER COAGULATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

EID: 0036934818     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-001-0404-4     Document Type: Article

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