Retinal pigment epithelial tear involving the fovea with preserved visual function

Ophthalmic Surgery Lasers and Imaging

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 217-220

  Yoshitani, Shigeki ^a   Katsura, Mari ^c   Minamoto, Atsushi ^b   Tsumura, Kiyoshi ^c   Tamura, Hiroki ^b   Hasebe, Haruyuki ^c   Mishima, Hiromu K ^b  

^a Hiroshima Memorial Hospital   (Japan)

^b Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences   (Japan)

^c Hiroshima Memorial Hospital ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DYE LASER; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LASER COAGULATION; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA TEAR; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

AGED; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER COAGULATION; LASERS; LIGHT; MALE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; RETINAL DETACHMENT; RETINAL PERFORATIONS; TOMOGRAPHY; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0037607254     PISSN: 15428877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/1542-8877-20030501-12     Document Type: Article

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