Side effects after radiotherapy of age-related macular degeneration with the Nijmegen technique

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 240, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 337-341

  Hoyng, Carel ^a   Tromp, Antoine I ^a   Meulendijks, Carina F M ^a   Leys, Anita ^b   van der Maazen, Richard W M ^a   Deutman, August F ^a   Vingerling, Johannes R ^c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHOROID DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; MICROANEURYSM; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULA EDEMA; RETINA NEOVASCULARIZATION; RETINOPATHY; SCORING SYSTEM; TECHNIQUE; TELANGIECTASIA;

AGED; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; NETHERLANDS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; RETINA; RETINAL DISEASES;

EID: 0036938997     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-002-0428-4     Document Type: Article

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