Patchy atrophy and lacquer cracks predispose to the development of choroidal neovascularisation in pathological myopia

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 570-573

  Ohno Matsui, Kyoko ^a   Yoshida, T ^a   Futagami, S ^a   Yasuzumi, K ^a   Shimada, N ^a   Kojima, A ^a   Tokoro, T ^a   Mochizuki, M ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHORIORETINOPATHY; CHOROID DISEASE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EYE FUNDUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; MYOPIA; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATROPHY; CHILD; CHOROID; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; RETINA;

EID: 0037732655     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.87.5.570     Document Type: Article

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