One year follow up of macular translocation with 360 degree retinotomy in patients with age related macular degeneration

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 615-621

  Abdel Meguid, A ^a,b   Lappas, A ^b   Hartmann, K ^b   Auer, F ^b   Schrage, N ^b   Thumann, G ^a   Kirchhof, Bernd ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICONE OIL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CILIARY DISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA DISEASE; DIPLOPIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LASER SURGERY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA DISEASE; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULA TRANSLOCATION; RETINOPEXY; RETINOTOMY; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY; VITREORETINOPATHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MACULA LUTEA; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETINA; RETINAL DETACHMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0038746727     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.87.5.615     Document Type: Article

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